Farmers’ markets and business groups say they are “sad and disappointed” in NoFrills and its parent company Loblaw after the company sent a mass-advertising text message encouraging customers to “skip the line” at their local farmers’ market and visit their stores instead. The Farmers’ Market Cooperative of Nova Scotia and the Ontario Small Business Community […]
  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    Goddamn, but no surprises. We should only be surprised when these corpos don’t behave like psychopaths.

  • moistclump@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Recent ads from Loblaw Co. urging shoppers to skip the line at their local farmers market and visit its budget subsidiary NoFrills instead are an attack on groups that already struggle to sell their products, organizations in two provinces said as they expressed their disappointment in the grocery giant’s ad campaign.

    Upsetting. Loblaws is being gross.