[Jyhad] Best Buy shutting down the Future Shop chain

[Kersus]

 Hah!

Loblaws is a big supermarket chain that owns a pile of others (Valu-Mart, Your Independent Grocer, Real Canadian Superstore, Freshmart, etc). We essentially have Loblaws and Metro for supermarkets. Metro is from Quebec and bought up A&P and all their subsidiaries like Food Basics and I believe Loeb. Loblaws bought the rest.

Loblaws uses the fun tactics of buying and placing their less than favourable chains in great vantage points to simply direct you to their main chains. Oh this price is too high? Just go around the corner and down the street to Superstore. We don't have enough variety, well just go down....

It's one of those things where people get angry with one store and go to another not realizing it's really the same company. I wish they had to have the parent company in their name. It would change everyone's perspective of a lot of companies if it was plainly obvious who owned who. I use "own" rather flippantly as sometimes they're just the sole supplier.

I need bags for my garbage pails. I did get a handy reusable bag from the short-lived Target project here that squeezes into a little baggy for easy carrying when it's empty. I quite like it although the handles are so long the bag drags on the ground. It's really the only one I use often.

Whether using reusable or not, charging for bags isn't done here to help the environment; it's simple a money grab - except Toronto where it's a by-law. 

Anyhow, there's a great loss of jobs because these foreign companies buy a chain and end it. 

Mergers and like acquisitions have been a bane on Canadians even when purely domestic. Banks, airlines, etc...