{"id":30908,"date":"2023-12-14T17:01:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T22:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=30908"},"modified":"2024-02-28T19:02:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T00:02:52","slug":"federal-industry-minister-in-talks-with-foreign-grocery-execs-to-lure-new-supermarket-chain-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=30908","title":{"rendered":"Federal industry minister in talks with foreign grocery execs to lure new supermarket chain to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Federal Industry Minister Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne said he’d consider it a good thing if Canada’s major grocery chains were upset about his talks with foreign players. “That’s good if they’re concerned,”<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Federal industry minister in talks with foreign grocery execs to lure new supermarket chain to Canada<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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I wrote⬇️while reading⬆️:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2024-02-28 – while watching this CBC story<\/a>, got this info:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in 1970s, canada had 8 large chains grocvery stores. 2024 has 3 majors, 2 minors? so maybe we do need a couple more full national majors, on the scale of loblaws or sobey or empire<\/p>\n\n\n\n

wtf? what’s empire??<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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is there a known number of grocery store chains at or above which will lead to enough competition? if we have 5 “majors” (Loblaw, Sobeys, Metro, Walmart and Costco), will adding a 6th or 7th do much?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

if would be interesting to list the # of “majors” in various other fields (and maybe use a table block????<\/s>) challenge: how to define “majors”; the list of grocery majors above suggests nation-wide; check if they are indeed nation-wide, Walmart=Y, Metro=N (ON & QC), Loblaw=Y, Sobeys=Y, Costco=Y~)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industry<\/td>Majors?<\/td><\/tr>
groceries<\/td>5<\/td><\/tr>
gas stations<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
drug store<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
cell phone<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
internet providers<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
banks<\/td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

other interesting things…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

i tried ChatGPT, but it can’t do this sort of mapping. trying to get a list from Costco’s website might be dooable if one has the patience. but i did find this from ScrapeHero<\/a> (others below in the gallery):<\/p>\n\n\n\n