My main issue with that is that food availability, preferences, regulations, and suppliers vary wildly from city to city, let alone province to province.
A provincial crown corp might be able to pull it off, a national one couldn’t.
I disagree; loblaws is under no pressure to standardize between provinces and sub-brands, a national crown corp would be.
I.E. Nobody cares if potatoes are a different price in different loblawses or no-frillses; but it would be a grand grievance, real or precived, of potatoes in Toronto were cheaper than PEI.
My main issue with that is that food availability, preferences, regulations, and suppliers vary wildly from city to city, let alone province to province.
A provincial crown corp might be able to pull it off, a national one couldn’t.
A national crown corp could pull it off just as well as a national private corp like Loblaws could
I disagree; loblaws is under no pressure to standardize between provinces and sub-brands, a national crown corp would be.
I.E. Nobody cares if potatoes are a different price in different loblawses or no-frillses; but it would be a grand grievance, real or precived, of potatoes in Toronto were cheaper than PEI.