‘rival’
America is similar, it just has more than 3 corporations running everything.
Fuckin Loblaws selling " Presidents Choice" food in a country with no President. Except the President of Loblaws … Basically the coup already happened.
Historically, the name came from Dave Nichol, who was president of the company for decades. He actually had a very strong hand in the selection of products that were included in the product line.
Apparently all kinds of people would pitch product ideas at him, and would taste test them and pick only ones he liked. The idea of “President’s Choice” wasn’t to be cheapo no name products, but unique and distinctive stuff personally picked by the company’s president.
And Dave wasn’t just some guy in the corner office. In his prime he was a Canadian personality, and you saw him in TV commercials. Once he left Loblaws in the '90s the President’s Choice stuff lost its panache and meaning.
Gallon Westin was also in TV commercials. It’s not hard to put yourself in TV commercials.
If he could get away with it, he’d rename is Peasant’s Choice.
Oh wait. He probably can get away with it.
Really crazy how Irving’s don’t get a mention.
As a Canadian, what the hell is an Irving?
Closest thing Canada has to royal family. They own the east coast.
I grew up in Ontario. Never heard of them. Then I moved out east and holy fuck it was crazy how I never heard of this family. They own everything in the maritimes. Them and the McCain’s(french fry McCain’s).
It’s to the point that the Maritimes feel like a factory town and most of Canada never heard of them. Might have something to do with how they own all media out there too.
What about Timmy’s? I’m in Toronto and I think there is one on every block.
Nah, those are just Brazilian tourists now
It’s a game of monopoly and we’re all losing.
in Canada we play Poleconomy.
Oligopoly actually.
✨capitalism✨
If you’re playing monopoly, isn’t everyone a loser? 😝
Nice.
What blows my mind 🤯
The landlords game has two different sets of rules you could play with. One set of rules was basically the same as the Monopoly we know today. When the game ends when one player acquires ownership of everything and bankrupts everyone else.
The other set of rules, called “prosperity”, involved a tax that redistributed wealth. The game ends when all players have doubled their original stake and everyone wins.
The game was intended to show how unbridled capitalism ultimately leads to a few billionaires owning everything and everyone else being poor/bankrupt. (Sound familiar?)
And compared it to the prosperity rules which were based on Georgism, a kind of socialism/capitalism hybrid that both rewards people for the value they produce while also creating surplus public revenue that can be used to create social safety nets.
Which is what the game of monopoly was designed to teach.
Also the most boring game
We should have our wealthy play hungry hungry hippos. As in we toss them into a marsh with 4 hungry hippos.
Hey now… let’s not forget AirCanada.
And the banks, and the oil companies.
Wait but Joe Rogan told me it’s governed by a communist, I don’t know what that is but it can’t be good
And a coffee shop which is widely loved but functionally is just a powerless figurehead.
Burger King’s Canada Coffeehouse
Hey, we have checks and balances in place.
The Senate is occupied by two railroads.
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Long live Sasktel.
Until Bell decides to snuff it out. They’ll use their “legal” division (aka the CRTC) to outlaw it and no-one will squawk about it because: if you control the media, you control ‘the people’s’ voice. We live in the shittiest timeline.
And then bell asks us why we’re depressed.
Lol. It’s a crown corporation and WILDLY popular. No one will squawk? Any party would not withstanding that shit immediately because it’s popular, and then just wrap it in their party-specific words.
The LAST thing Bell wants is to draw national attention to how well a provincial offering is. The LAST thing they want is for people to see that there are alternative structures that are working for other Canadians.
I’m sure the conservatives will continue trying to figure out a way to push it to withering and crumbling… they definitely tried to sell off/privatize chunks of them in the past but the level of outrage they were met with has put those ideas to bed for the time being
“This part of the Crown corporation is profitable on its own, we should sell it off!”
“Why are we spending so much money to subsidize this Crown corporation!? We should sell it off!”
It’s a tough fight for them because of how familiar the population is with those corps.
Lab services in Sask have bounced between private and public several times… Nobody really notices (which is sad IMO)
But SGI and SaskTel… Everyone is a client, and everyone can look over any provincial border and go “whoa, don’t wanna end up like them”.
Not Canadian… yet. How close I am to citizenship?
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Rogers
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Lobslaw
Lobslaw 🤣🤔🤣🤔🤣
I’m keeping that one.
I suppose that’s one point against citizenship lol
There are actually three major telecom companies making up 85%+ of the market share: Bell, Rogers, and Telus. Don’t be fooled by names like Virgin, Fido, and Koodo, as those are just the “lite” subsidiaries of the three major companies respectively.
For supermarkets there is Loblaws, as you said. But, it’s not like Sobeys and Metro are much better, they just keep their robber-baron executives better hidden.
Sobeys and Metro are literally the exact same shit. The whole boycott thing was so stupid, they played us like a fiddle.
Huh, I almost guessed Telus. Is Bell more of an east coast thing?
Bell was available in Nova Scotia when I lived there. It’s also in Ontario. I can’t speak for other provinces.
Bell is the second largest in Canada in number of suscribers.
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Oh no, it’s not a monopoly. It’s an oligopoly. It’s like exactly the same except it’s completely legal.
Oh and here’s another data point.
“On January 14, 2020, Universal and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced that they would partner on a 10-year multinational joint-venture. In North America, their physical distribution operations were merged into a company named Studio Distribution Services, LLC.”
My dad said I already own Park Place so whatever dice you roll is whatever
If Sobey’s wants to fix prices high, they have to make exactly two phonecalls before they do it. Totally different. /s
oligopoly.
Here’s the thing. Imagine you are at Disney Studios in Burbank, California. Leave the lot and take a walk through Johnny Carson Park. Now you’re in NBC Burbank Studios. Keep going and you’ll find yourself in Warner Brother’s Studios. On the other side of the Lakeside Golf Club is Universal Studios. A few months ago the CEOs of these studios were regularly meeting to discuss what they were going to offer the writer’s and actor’s unions. These CEOs are all supposed to hate each other but now they are like buddies. Seriously, a couple of weeks ago Warner Brother’s and Disney announced “The streaming bundle of Hulu, Max and Disney+ is hitting the market today at the price of $16.99 a month with advertising and $29.99 without.” Kevin Feige said in an interview recently “if people go to the movie theater and see one of their movies and it has a trailer for one of our movies then that’s good for us.”
Bit of a stretch to say they’re rivals.
They’re not rivals.
