Passion Power

Companies are doing a great job rebranding corporate greed as “inflation”.   Take Starbucks for example that says they are forced to raise prices due to inflation and supply chain issues and yet profits went up 31% and they gave their CEO a 39% raise to $20.4 million. A corporation’s sole purpose today is to make money. Never has that fact been more evident than in the grocery business.   I don’t have a problem with the Loblaw executive chairman Galen G. Weston making $4 million dollars a year, but I do have a problem with food going green on my counter and being forced to purchase multiple food items to get a sale price. The same Loblaws that has total assets amounting to $36 Billion and cancelled it’s $2-per-hour pandemic bonuses for frontline staff in stores and warehouses. When I asked the local store owner about these nefarious “multi-sales” he says they are profitable but not popular. He could lose his franchise if he doesn’t follow the rules.   So now we h...

Am I the Only One that finds it exhausting to stay local, loyal, organic and healthy? I’m adding one more, affordable. Groceries are the biggest expense for families and many are struggling to put meals on the table, let alone healthy ones. When I pay $3.49 for romaine lettuce, I still need dressing and a cucumber. An $8 bag of apples is pretty expensive but I want my kids to eat healthy so I buy it. All the sugary and high sodium products are affordable but no parent really wants to feed junk to their kids, do they? The excuse use to be because fuel was so high but oil has been going down for months and groceries are going up so that’s not it. Maple Leaf Foods just laid off 400 employees. Their Canadian workforce isn’t the only thing shrinking. Look what they did to their packaging? This is corporate greed at its finest. Kellogg’s has been in London Ontario for 100 years. The CBC headlines were “plant closing as cereal consumption declines,” what kind of a right wing...