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Carole Marlowe's avatar

Ugh! This is so depressing! I had no idea and it is such sneaky greed that goes under the radar that it is beyond wrong! But warriors such as you are sounding the alarm.

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Loryne Andawey-Adam's avatar

"If it's hot outside, we can raise the price of water and ice cream. If there's something that's close to the expiration date, we can lower the price — that's the good news,"

The key word in this statement is "can." Even if big grocers will lower prices the closer the products get to the expiration date, how close will they lower it and by how much?

In addition, Canada is moving towards removing Best Before dates (not expiry dates) to combat food waste. While I am behind the reduction of food waste, I can see Walmart and big grocery chains using that as an excuse to only have 1 markdown, or keep canned goods at the same price or higher for years without indicating how long they've been on the shelf.

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