Loblaws is out of control @lemmy.ca Beaver @lemmy.ca 3mo ago

Grocery Prices are Rising and Farmers’ Share Declining as Corporate Processors and Retailers Take More and More

www.nfu.ca Grocery Prices are Rising and Farmers’ Share Declining as Corporate Processors and Retailers Take More and More | National Farmers Union

Swift Current, SK—Retail food prices are rising. To explain these increases, many commentators point to rising prices for farm products and cite drought, other production problems, the pandemic…

Grocery Prices are Rising and Farmers’ Share Declining as Corporate Processors and Retailers Take More and More | National Farmers Union

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Figures 2-4 are staggering. It makes me wonder how farmers are surviving financially
- Last I heard...subsidies. So it's a fragile existence.
  
  If those subsidies are coming from the government that means the burden is shifted to taxpayers.
  
  Which means the common man is not only being grifted at the store with his hard earned, after-tax dollar, the tax portion of his earnings are also being grifted.
This is completely insane and unsurprising. I've always wanted to get my hands on comparisons like these.
The OBVIOUS Solution is to allow these Conglomerates to BUY Competitors! That will Reduce Prices on Consumers and Raise Profits of the Workers!
Is the drastic upward slope of bread around 2004+ when Loblaws and others started the bread price fixing?

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