We are getting screwed!!!
Politics Mar 18, 2009 The Waffle 2 Comments There is one economic area where people do still spend money, whatever the economic circumstances are: food. Grocery stores are not suffering as much as any other retail sector, that is a simple fact, and it explains Canadian Tire’s move. However, some corporations are using the economic crisis as an excuse to take advantage of us, poor human beings looking to feed, by downsizing their packaging. Marie-Ève Fournier, a locked-out reporter from Le Journal de Montréal, is reporting on their lock-out news outlet RueFrontenac.com, that food corporations are out there to get us. I had noticed this downsizing phenomon in years past, the 1L containers shrinking to 960 ml, or 500g becoming 450g, but at the same price! Most of the time, it was an isolated situation. Not anymore. In the past few weeks: A 2 litre container of ice cream is…