If You’re Curious About Buying Meat Online, Here’s Where to Start

In partnership with Snake River Farms In this era of internet shopping, it can still be daunting to buy groceries online. You can’t touch or taste the produce, and sometimes nutrition labels aren’t even available to know exactly what you’re buying. And when it comes to meat, it can be difficult to determine the quality when […]

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Which foods should you buy in bulk?

Buying in bulk can be a smart way to stretch your grocery budget, especially as food prices continue to rise. But bigger isn’t always better. While some items can save you money when purchased in larger quantities, others may spoil, lose quality or simply end up taking up valuable cupboard space. Before loading your trolley [...]

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Pluralistic: How not to ban surveillance pricing (30 Apr 2026)

Today's links How not to ban surveillance pricing: Maryland's new consumer protection law is all loophole. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Google's 8,000 Linux servers; Battleshoe; Knitted potholes; Unpack the court; "Robot Artists and Black Swans"; Enshittifying tech jobs. Upcoming appearances: Berlin, NYC, Barcelona, Hay-on-Wye, London, NYC. Recent appearances: Where…

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Loblaw, Sobeys Are Still Overcharging Canadians for Underweighted Meat—CBC Probe

A new CBC secret-shopping investigation has found Loblaw Companies (TSX: L) and Sobeys-affiliated stores overcharging customers for underweight meat one year after both grocers said they had reinforced weighing procedures. CBC visited 17 Loblaw-owned or Sobeys-affiliated stores in the Toronto, Vancouver, and Halifax areas over two months, targeting fresh meat sold by weight. The investigation…

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2.5 million Americans lost food aid in months after passage of GOP megabill, study finds

At least 2.5 million low-income people quickly lost help affording groceries under a Republican-passed law that added new requirements for the nation’s largest nutrition program and shifted hundreds of millions of dollars in costs from the federal government to states, according to a study the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities published Wednesday. Some 6% […]

Loblaws pretty sure people won’t care that coconuts labelled as “Canadian”

ETOBICOKE, ON – Despite individual stores receiving fines for mislabelling some foods as Canadian, Loblaws head office remains confident that Canadian shoppers will not notice their new policy of labelling coconuts, pineapples, and imported Dutch gouda as domestic products. While the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it’s handed out $47,000 in fines since last April […]

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