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minus-squaredubyakay@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 hours agoCanadian Tire doesn’t sell groceries in bulk. The only competition to Costco would be Real Canadian Superstore, but it’s a Loblaw company and they shrinkflated everything and have a meaningless membership program, and Walmart, which never really cared about going for the same margins.
minus-squareShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 hours agoIt’s hard to replace CostCo in full but at least the founder threatened to murder the CEO if he ever raised the price on hot dogs. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/costco-founder-kill-hotdogs/
Canadian Tire doesn’t sell groceries in bulk.
The only competition to Costco would be Real Canadian Superstore, but it’s a Loblaw company and they shrinkflated everything and have a meaningless membership program, and Walmart, which never really cared about going for the same margins.
It’s hard to replace CostCo in full but at least the founder threatened to murder the CEO if he ever raised the price on hot dogs. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/costco-founder-kill-hotdogs/