And a coffee shop which is widely loved but functionally is just a powerless figurehead.
Burger King’s Canada Coffeehouse
They’re not rivals.
I always heard “Canada is three mining companies standing on eachother’s shoulders in a trechcoat.”
Although that one applies equally to Australia.
It is more like an oil company, a mining company, and a logging company all on each others shoulders in a trenchcoat
and two cell phone companies hanging off the torso pretending they are arms … and a big giant dong of a grocery store hanging off the groin.
Worst zoltron villain ever.
That’s the Irving family of the maritimes.
Not Canadian… yet. How close I am to citizenship?
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Rogers
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Lobslaw
There are actually three major telecom companies making up 85%+ of the market share: Bell, Rogers, and Telus. Don’t be fooled by names like Virgin, Fido, and Koodo, as those are just the “lite” subsidiaries of the three major companies respectively.
For supermarkets the then there is Loblaws, as you said. But, it’s not like Sobeys and Metro are much better, they just keep their robber-baron executives better hidden.
Huh, I almost guessed Telus. Is Bell more of an east coast thing?
Bell was available in Nova Scotia when I lived there. It’s also in Ontario. I can’t speak for other provinces.
Bell is the second largest in Canada in number of suscribers.
Lobslaw 🤣🤔🤣🤔🤣
I’m keeping that one.
I suppose that’s one point against citizenship lol
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Really crazy how Irving’s don’t get a mention.
As a Canadian, what the hell is an Irving?
Closest thing Canada has toa royal family. They own the east coast.
Then you got neat little fiefdoms too, like Irvingland - whoops, I mean New Brunswick.
Probably wanna delete this before the Irvings put a hit out on you
Fuckin Loblaws selling " Presidents Choice" food in a country with no President. Except the President of Loblaws … Basically the coup already happened.
Historically, the name came from Dave Nichol, who was president of the company for decades. He actually had a very strong hand in the selection of products that were included in the product line.
Apparently all kinds of people would pitch product ideas at him, and would taste test them and pick only ones he liked. The idea of “President’s Choice” wasn’t to be cheapo no name products, but unique and distinctive stuff personally picked by the company’s president.
And Dave wasn’t just some guy in the corner office. In his prime he was a Canadian personality, and you saw him in TV commercials. Once he left Loblaws in the '90s the President’s Choice stuff lost its panache and meaning.
If he could get away with it, he’d rename is Peasant’s Choice.
Oh wait. He probably can get away with it.
In Australia it’s 2 supermarkets and 4 banks.
4 separate companies in one sector
Cannot relate.
In New Zealand it’s the same, and 5 of those 6 are Australian.
And a haunted skeleton masquerading as a media mogul.
We also have a senate, consisting of appointed large dairy farmers.
Hey now… let’s not forget AirCanada.
America is similar, it just has more than 3 corporations running everything.
‘rival’
Wait but Joe Rogan told me it’s governed by a communist, I don’t know what that is but it can’t be good
Bell, Rogers and… IGA?
Weston family, so a fuckton of chains across Canada. But their main chain is Sobey’s
…Superstore/Loblaws.
when you try the American experiment in a country with the population of California
sorry about that by the way
