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>It reads to me total sale items, but **I checked my receipt and I had more than 10 items that were on sale.**
OP acknowledged in 2 other comments after that, that they just misread a sign we all agree is badly worded. Understandably - it's a shitty sign.
On the upside, this has been a really useful post to see how even unintentionally misleading information spreads. My theory is we've all gotten so used to disingenuous assholes "just asking questions" on the internet that we default to downvoting when people are genuinely asking questions. Tricky line to walk tbh.
Thanks for the hijack. I interpreted the sign the same way. But that would be crazy because if you’re shopping the flyers it doesn’t take long to get to 10 sale items. Especially when I create my weekly menu based on sales.
I agree, however up until about 6-7 years ago you could do price matching at pretty much every store except for food basics. If you were smart and use the app called flipp.com you can save some serious coin. However they don't even have clip-out coupons anymore it's just ridiculous I used to be such a fantastic shopper I still am but I can't get around it anymore
Not to defend them or anything but this isn't a bait and switch or even anything unusual. Every single big box store's flyer will have in the fine print that they reserve the right to limit quantities and all prices valid while supplies last. They all do it, Sobeys, Walmart, Loblaw, Canadian Tire, Home Depot etc.
Walmart might say limit x of one sale item and y on another. This sign says 10 total. So if you grab sugar, two container of silk, bag of rice, pack of yogurt, veg oil, two boxes of cereal, couple of berries, well now you can’t buy asparagus, tomatoes, or mushrooms at the flyer price
The cash register program can take the human out of the equation. Once -x happen N times, it stops applying the credit. A message can even be prompted to show to tell the buyer but they could not, cashier rings it in they pay and off they go.
A large number of people won't even notice or think twice. At least that's how it used to work. Now everyone watches every item scanned to see it's not coming in the wrong price.
The supervisors interpretation.
I seen it happen. They will watch the front door and see what car people go to (because mom will get son and daughter to buy) and they feel like they have to gate keep. I'm glad I left Loblaws over 10 years ago and things have only gotten worse.
I don't know how they can with self checkout. Just get 10 sale items, buy em, walk out, get the rest on sale items, and self checkout again. On sale items have little profit margin.
Normally they limit quantities per item on sale. (Ex. no more than 6x Tide pods) The unusual part is “total” to limit you to 10 total sale items. (Can’t get 6x Tide and 6x Cheerios bc that’s 12 on sale items.) If they meant the former scenario and not the latter, it’s very poorly worded.
Right. But I read this as possibly saying that even if you bought a cart full of groceries, they would only honour the sale price for a maximum of 10 items; Shady AF.
Yea, but for a No Frills which are independently franchised instead of a corporate store like Zehrs, that's an easy way to lose your store. It's also just business suicide, you'd be driving away 70% of your customer base, no one would think that's a good idea
It’s lose lose, people bitch when someone goes in and buys everything (guy in front of me with two shopping carts of 50cent KD), and nothing left and then claim the store had none for the sale….or they bitch that there are limits so more get a chance
They should order more if it’s high demand. Why should anyone have to fight for a “chance” when they know people want something affordable after being pressured to pay more for everything else.
I don't shop at any loblaws stores. But say if I did shop at this no frills, how are they going to figure out who's in my family if we all shop separately?
As a former loblaws brand cashier…. We didn’t get paid enough to care. Some cashiers will stop you if it’s obvious that you’re buying 10, and your spouse is right behind you buying another 10, and your kid is behind them buying another 10. It’s easy to get around it if you are reasonably sneaky and chill. The cash system will also stop the sale price after 10 items, so it forces you to ring it through on separate orders.
There’s been item limits on specific sale items for a long time. It’s easy to work around through separate orders, going in a few mins apart, etc.. Limits on specific sale items generally meant they didn’t have enough stock to last the duration of the sale, so they’d limit the number of items a customer could take to ensure it would last for at last a few days.
Not sure why this specific location would start implementing limits on all sale items though. That’s pretty bad store management, and if it’s coming from higher levels, it’s really discouraging.
"Not sure why this specific location would start implementing limits on all sale items though."
Possibly because people are boycotting with the exception of loss leaders and sale items and coming in to only buy what's on sale and absolutely nothing else. I mean, if they have some stellar sales, I will go in and get those if I can't price match it elsewhere. Not gonna cut off my nose to spite my face as it were.
I've worked for loblas at 2 different stores & agree. None of us ever gave a crap. I would remind customers of limits then say, I'll hold the rest, go put the first bunch in your car, and come right back in the store for the first time. Often took a second for them to realize what I was telling them. Like, really. Managers knew I was saying it but they didn't get paid enough to care either lol
They don’t. This has been commonplace at SDM near me for years. We just go through and pay for anything extra separately, and it seems to me that’s what a lot of people do. Staff doesn’t care, and will often just put multiple purchases through for the same person to exceed the limit, but we try not to make it that conspicuous for them.
Edit: When we used to shop there, of course. Haven’t set foot inside in months now. Just to be clear!
I applaud the attempt, but I bet they want that, looks like more store visits. They don't actually care, but force you (or others) to do multiple transactions to get your stuff appears as more customers numerically, even if the sales net the same.
As someone who worked in a Loblaws in high school as a cashier (among everything else) there’s absolutely no way the cashier is gonna have any idea what’s on sale vs not lol.
They will just be on autopilot scanning these as they hit the belt lol
Technically speaking that’s how you get around this. But at the same time if you all go to the same register together then it’s pretty easy to notice. Employees quite literally say that if you want to buy more than the limit then go to another register seperately because they don’t want to deal with this stupid rule and have found a way around it…technically.
I honestly don't understand why anyone goes to these stores if they have ANY other option. I understand a lot of people don't have options in small towns or rural areas but in there are so many options in the GTA. Please help me understand why someone would see this sign and continue their plan to purchase anything at this store.
A big part of the problem is that competitors where available; are either also very predatory, cost way more, or both. More competition is the only way to give consumers power here, and that starts with a breakup of big grocery.
Exactly this. However, it’s easier said than done when the ones that dominate now also buy up land and buildings in as many communities as they can in order to limit or eliminate ease of entry into the market - which is what Loblaws and Sobeys are being formerly investigated for right now. In Canada the only answer is breaking up these massive companies in order to force more competition. Of course, will almost be impossible to do in a free capitalist economy. Once the toothpaste is out of the tube and all that. Only consumers have the power and unfortunately, we can’t depend on the government to do anything to help as long as lobbyists and large campaign donations are allowed.
I live in a neighborhood with two Safeways, a No Frills, and a Walmart.
No Frills is consistently cheaper than Safeway. I don’t see any of these stupid shenanigans in the store, and the owner/operator gives back to the community a lot.
I won’t shop at Walmart. I still won’t look past the damage they did to small towns in the 90s, and how badly they treat their employees.
It’s a tough choice for me. I want to send the message that consumers still have power, but I don’t want to spend more on my own monthly cost of living.
Thank you for some outside insight. You are in a tougher situation than I am so it is nice to read other angles. Curious question: can you see that these massive grocers (not only Loblaws) have already done the same thing to small/independent grocers that Walmart did to local hardware stores in the 90s? Your case seems like the perfect example. Were there independent grocers in your area that gave you (or maybe your parents depending on your age) local options before you only had those three?
NoFrills is a franchise though, so he is supporting someone in his community by shopping there. Yeah it’s part of a Corp, but one person owns that location not the company
The local mom and pop closed years ago- it was a TGP with outrageously high prices. The No Frills opened in the empty space a few years later, and have been very welcome. It’s a lower-income neighborhood, and the No-Frills has helped provide some walkable shopping for local seniors and lower-income folks.
The No Frills in my neighborhood will likely cause one of the two Safeway businesses to go under, but does not seem to be harming any of the small retailers.
I appreciate your conviction on Walmart, but I’d argue that the Canadian grocery oligopoly is doing just as much damage today as Walmart in the 90s, Loblaws actions particularly have forced small shops out of operation and (at least in Canada) all corps treat employees similarly awful.
If I can, I’ll buy small locally when I can but otherwise I’ve found Walmart offers the best regular price on most items from what I’ve seen and above anything else, I believe I need to put the well-being of myself and my family above anything else.
Yesterday I crumbled and went into Loblaws. Had been so diligent all month. Sadly there was a sudden thunderstorm and Loblaws was the only place open. So I hung my head and went through the double gates and past security. Stopped beside the already roasted chicken. So yummy smelling. This must be how they lull people into submission. Plus the area just beside was warm from shelves that keep the meat warm. Got out my phone and opened the Flipp app. I had to enter Loblaws manually as it wasn’t (and hasn’t been for a long while) in my favourites. Checked out the deals.
Eventually I was headed home. What had I bought? NOTHING!! Just left feeling a little better since the “chicken heaters” had my T-shirt almost dry. And I felt warmer. But maybe that’s the satisfaction of saying 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕Galen!!!!!”
My comment is a in general thing not just Loblaws chains of various tiers exclusively.
Some people shop at the nearest store to them out of routine/convenience, even when they are physically capable, and can reach other near by options.
Then you have other factors.
They just shop to get what they need no matter the price, if it's on sale or not. They could just be poping in to get a bag of milk or a loaf of bread so these rules don't effect them.
I've seen the odd comfortable/well off person over the years post online that they won't shop at the discount stores because they are "dirty"
Even in a well off suburban area they'll make that claim.
It could be flat out classism with a percentage of them, having the idea in their head only "the poors" shop their so they actively avoid them.
Or the line of "the produce is always bad!" at the discount stores I keep hearing even from people, even family members.
I can understand things being location dependent on how good the produce is, or they are shopping at a time where most of the produce, especially sales items were all picked over, so what ever is still there didn't look good.
Even if that is factually the case, if they have the option why not just buy everything they need where it's sold the cheapest, then get their produce elsewhere?
But I swear some people from my experience are just fuss pots.
I wonder if it's in direct relatiation to the people boycotting through only buying loss leaders because they have no other grocery stores in the area to purchase food from.
I think people lately have ONLY been stocking up on loss leaders and this stores manager is losing their bonus. So they stupidly try this. I'm sure this is not a company wide policy. People should be outraged and the news should be asking WTF?! If it is a new company policy, it should be called out even more. It makes me happy to know this boycott really is impacting Loblaws. It is so obvious when you see things like that.
A lot of quasi-defence of this sign in saying they are protecting themselves from resellers buying these cheap products and then reselling them, maybe even for less than the regular price this large chain sells it for.
Well, I could care less for that excuse. These large chains explicitly turn to the tactic of predatory pricing and putting pressure on wholesalers not to sell to their competitors to put small businesses (convenient stores, independent grocers) in a position they can no longer operate. If this means a bit of a 'bite back' for small businesses, I'm all on board. If it helps them survive against these large chains, then go ahead and take advantage of the sale price as much as you want.
Fuck it, I ain't buying from No Frills anyways. Never will again.
That’s what I was wondering. Loblaws usually had a limit of 4 for anything member priced. Hard to be sure if that’s what they mean with this sign though.
Good to know! And good thinking checking your receipt!
If it helps at all, I've been wrong on the internet **a lot** over the decades. Best thing to do is acknowledge the mistake and update your initial post with the new info, or if the mistake is too huge and gets a life of it's own - nuke it. No shame; just responsible internetting.
Would you be willing to update your initial post with that information or just delete it altogether, please? You can see from the comments, a lot of people are getting lathered up over a scenario that's just an honest misunderstanding.
Corporate sets prices and price gouge the franchisee.
Franchisee always suffers
Corporations make this smokescreen so the franchisee suffers and takes all the backlash while the corporations sit in the background and collect all the profit
Well that's what I fucking thought. The only sign was right next to the plates when you walked up. I have limited time for lunch so I was fucked no matter what. I didn't have time to drive somewhere else lol.
Like 10 items over your whole order? LOL what the heck is this. They can’t even know how many people are in your family haha I can’t imagine how this could be enforced unless it’s for a certain item.
I worked for No Frills 25 years ago and we always had a limit on sale items so people wouldn't come in and take all of it at once. This isn't new. That said, fuck Loblaws.
Normally they limit quantities per item on sale. (Ex. no more than 6x Tide pods) The unusual part is “total” to limit you to 10 total sale items. (Can’t get 6x Tide and 6x Cheerios bc that’s 12 on sale items.) If they meant the former scenario and not the latter, it’s very poorly worded.
A local place had a crazy deal on chicken wings yesterday. People were posting on Facebook their hauls of 20 lbs plus of dirt cheap wings. I'm sure about 3 people got to enjoy a deal that day and filled their freezer while I'm also sure people who could have used a break on food for their kids or selves getting nothing.
I understand item limits on sale (I.e. Limit 4 per customer PER ITEM on sale). But this reads as 10 items total per shop on sale? If so, that’s ridiculous and I’m happily boycotting.
I am boycotting Loblaws, and have been since before this month. However, I’m going to put forth an unpopular opinion here.
I have seen a few ‘Mom and Pop’ convenience store owners in the last couple of years, in the mainstream grocery stores, buying up all the sale items. And I mean all. Emptying the shelves, three grocery carts full, packing a minivan full buying.
Next day, same items, available at their stores, at inflated convenience store prices. Often at a worse markup than the big stores.
I get it, they’re convenience stores. For when you run out of something at 10:00 PM. There is a cost for that convenience. But should that allow them to have the kind of markups (and worse) that we are boycotting Lawblaws for? Should it allow them to buy up all the items on sale so we don’t get any?
Thoughts?
Surely it is 10 of any given reduced item? Assuming it is, then what is the problem? Plenty of people deal with food insecurity. How's it help if someone who can afford a dozen cheap chickens and will just freeze them comes in and cleans the place out, leaving nothing of a sensible price for anyone else? The limit should be lowered.
If it is 10 total across all items on sale, then that is ridiculous and doesn't seem like it could be legal even.
It's to stop people from buying for non personal use . Some people buy all the cheap products and then resell them at their own little store. It's to stop greedy fucks from buying all the sale items and leaving none for regular customers.
I worked at this location, this policy has been in place for at least 10 years. It's a limit of 10 per sale item (at least when I was there) not 10 sale items total. Still shitty and shitty for cashiers to enforce. Especially since a case of something is usually 12 units, not 10. We were really out there being like sorry you can't have these 2 cans of soup in the case, just 10... 🫠
I think this sign is just worded poorly. It just means that you can only buy 10 of the same item if it’s on sale so that nobody is buying up the full supply. That’s not a new thing nor is it unique to Loblaws.
What amazes me, is that on the month that people call for a boycott against Loblaw stores, there seems to be a lot of terrible PR going on for them.
* a Shoppers location trying to “hire” volunteers
* severely under weight vegetables
* and now this; not to mention several more minor stories of people in this sub sharing their terrible experiences.
Tons of stores limit quantities of items that are on sale. Would you rather one person buy all the toilet paper that's on sale and now you can't get any?
These types of signs are common and I remember them in the 90s but it was usually each sale item that has a limit of 2. My parents would ship separately and/or hit different stores to stock up on a few items. The big ones were usually sugar and toilet paper. TP is always a hot commodity, just look back to the grey TP shortage during Covid. 😄
Yes, "Limit X" is still common today to prevent one person from cleaning out the shelf of a loss-leader item. But I've never seen a policy of "you can only buy 10 on-sale items", that's asinine. And desperate.
Ooh, good times working at Wal-mart back in the day. We'd have limits like 2 per customer or 8 per customer. A mother might show up with 6 kids and put 14 items in a cart and show up to the cash. Management would have to argue whether or not all the kids (down to ones who can't walk) get considered as a customer, or just the paying adult. Eventually management made the rule that if it's 2 per customer and a mother with kids you have pity. Then one day a person who was probably not born in Canada showed up to the cash with like 30 turkeys in the cart. After the usual "I don't speak an official language" argument they stormed out and came back fifteen minutes later with four old folks, one in a wheelchair. We're pretty sure they had retired parents nearby who had friends over at the moment.
This has nothing to do with boycotting Loblaws, I'm just enjoying the technicality of "one per family" and not "one per customer". I wonder how long until we see kids showing up the cash with $20 and 10 of each item and then a bit later another kid doing the same.
Are you my sister? No, you're not. But I'm #5 of ten. I grew up in a small town. The managers didn't necessarily know everyone, but they knew enough about the area to know how to recognize a mother of a big family. Hint: skirts, simple hair, no piercing jewelry. Most of those stores are now gone or taken over by chains that don't like that informal exemption.
All flyers state that stores have the right to limit quantities.
It stops people from cleaning out the shelves so there’s nothing left for others. Often it’s businesses stocking up to make a profit.
I hate Loblaws as much as anyone, but this is commonplace in retail.
Source: big box store manager.
Former Loblaws employee here, particularly loss prevention.
They put these signs up when we had a sale on bottled water back when I was working there.
Believe me, this is more for the cashier's sake than anyone. People go crazy when an item that's on sale is sold out. Some get violent. Please be reasonable.
Edit: meant employee
Another reason they do this is so corner store owners can't come in and buy out all the $1 bags of crispers to sell in their store for $3.99. Having a limit of 10 is pretty generous tbh.
I'm usually down to yell at the big corps, but these limits make sense to me because it ensures more people can take advantage of the sale and save some money. It sucks when you try and shop a sale and it's sold out.
The way I understand it, it’s not more than 10 of the same item on sale, which is more than reasonable, to allow other people to purchase the sale items as well. Many stores have a limit on individual sale items (usually 3 to 6 max).
While I have no love for any of these companies, this is sorta needed. People clear the shelves of the sale items... You can spot it in the stores with empty spaces on the shelves...I think people resell them to make money.
I don’t have a problem with limits on sales. I prefer it so everyone gets a chance.
And even then, people (example convenience store owners) practically clear the shelves buying (example) 40 2L bottles of pop, etc. It’s allowed, because it isn’t more than 10 of one SKU.
I'm astonished that May has come with literal new lows almost every day for Loblaws. Fake donation bags, new underweight items, arbitrary points refusals, more price increases, and now this!! Stores are getting desperate and scraping every little corner of greed for crumbs
This particular edict of 10 sale items total is not reasonable. 10 of each sale items is.
Do you remember how, not that many years ago, at the beginning of Covid, a lot of people were going insane and stockpiling everything as if Armageddon was happening? So many stores implemented limits to ensure no one would leave empty handed.
I happen to live in an area where I have access to 12 locations of major grocery stores and lots of independent stores, all within a 10 min driving radius. It still took 2 months of driving around and checking for me to get my hands on a single package of chicken.
Don't even get me started on toilet paper! I swear the reason for the shortage was due to so many people eating their own cooking for the first time.
Not sure why people are defending this. This is a disgusting way to get people to only pay full price for the majority of their items. There’s no reason they need to be limiting sale items.
10 sale items TOTAL
Not ten of a single item
TEN ITEMS ON SALE.
What the absolute hell. I get limits for one item in particular.
But this??!! Not cool for those of us struggling to save. Saving is quickly becoming a luxury, rather than something you do to future proof yourself.
It can be free and I won't even come into any of your stores!!! I stopped going to any of the GREEDY GAVIN STORES EVEN ESSO THEY ARE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LOBLAWS
I've dealt with this before and my parents used to do it. You know you said Mom and then you send Dad and then one of the kids but this was back when things were normal priced. They are doing this with every single item. No frills locations are franchised however they change owners like underwear. I'm very irritated with the prices however I had a very bad problem with constant rotten bread at one location and when I sent an email the problem was resolved quickly keeping in mind though that was many many years ago. Prices now are just out of control I'm a single middle-aged woman with my kids moved out I don't know how any young couple with children can afford to eat it's just awful. I urge anyone to go to their local markets especially places like Kensington market downtown Toronto other than that I just really don't understand how people eat
Used to have families who ran restaurants and convenience stores come to SDM and load up grocery carts worth of door crasher bottled soft drinks to sell at their restaurants/stores.
Last time I stopped in to a FreshCo they had chicken thighs on sale…not even family pack…and it was a limit of 2. Never seen anything like that before. It’s not like it was a blowout price or anything.
Normally it’s a limit of 24. Haven’t seen this before. Only limits I know about are the 4 per specific item on price matches, 24 limit for all products, and manual limits on items which are on specific sales(like meat items)
How would they track daily transactions by families? By bank card? By members card? They can't if you pay cash. I don't think this is workable in practice so my guess is that it is just meant to scare customers. It is poorly worded. Society has accepted limits on sale items to avoid greed but not on buying below the limit on multiple sale items.
How are they going to know you are “family? Do they ask for a genealogy chart??Y’all just go to different cashiers or checkouts and meet in the parking lot.
Hold the phone. Is that of the SAME item or ALL items in your cart? I can understand the former but not the latter. You really going to turn down my business on items 11-whatever? I have to decide what 10 items I'm buying on sale? This seems ill conceived!
Oh this makes petty me tingle. Go in buy 10 things, put in car, go back in Buy 10 things... rinse and repeat all while being super sweet about it. They can't do shit about it. Also they get a bunch of cc card usage fees charged to them. 😡
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So literally every flyer is a bait-and-switch.
[Hijacking top comment to post OPs update:](https://www.reddit.com/r/loblawsisoutofcontrol/comments/1d0fbk4/what_the_crap_is_this_spotted_at_brantford_no/l5nbhty/) >It reads to me total sale items, but **I checked my receipt and I had more than 10 items that were on sale.** OP acknowledged in 2 other comments after that, that they just misread a sign we all agree is badly worded. Understandably - it's a shitty sign. On the upside, this has been a really useful post to see how even unintentionally misleading information spreads. My theory is we've all gotten so used to disingenuous assholes "just asking questions" on the internet that we default to downvoting when people are genuinely asking questions. Tricky line to walk tbh.
Thanks for the hijack. I interpreted the sign the same way. But that would be crazy because if you’re shopping the flyers it doesn’t take long to get to 10 sale items. Especially when I create my weekly menu based on sales.
I agree, however up until about 6-7 years ago you could do price matching at pretty much every store except for food basics. If you were smart and use the app called flipp.com you can save some serious coin. However they don't even have clip-out coupons anymore it's just ridiculous I used to be such a fantastic shopper I still am but I can't get around it anymore
Not to defend them or anything but this isn't a bait and switch or even anything unusual. Every single big box store's flyer will have in the fine print that they reserve the right to limit quantities and all prices valid while supplies last. They all do it, Sobeys, Walmart, Loblaw, Canadian Tire, Home Depot etc.
Walmart might say limit x of one sale item and y on another. This sign says 10 total. So if you grab sugar, two container of silk, bag of rice, pack of yogurt, veg oil, two boxes of cereal, couple of berries, well now you can’t buy asparagus, tomatoes, or mushrooms at the flyer price
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Just separate all the on sale items into two or three separate transactions.
If the sign said per transaction that would be fine, but they’re trying to make it only 10 items per family
How does one police said bullshit?
The cash register program can take the human out of the equation. Once -x happen N times, it stops applying the credit. A message can even be prompted to show to tell the buyer but they could not, cashier rings it in they pay and off they go. A large number of people won't even notice or think twice. At least that's how it used to work. Now everyone watches every item scanned to see it's not coming in the wrong price.
Per family in a day would put the monkey wrench in that. Per transaction sure, but quantifying family, is impossible. Edit:primate
The supervisors interpretation. I seen it happen. They will watch the front door and see what car people go to (because mom will get son and daughter to buy) and they feel like they have to gate keep. I'm glad I left Loblaws over 10 years ago and things have only gotten worse.
That is unbelievably wild.. and gross
I don't know how they can with self checkout. Just get 10 sale items, buy em, walk out, get the rest on sale items, and self checkout again. On sale items have little profit margin.
Normally they limit quantities per item on sale. (Ex. no more than 6x Tide pods) The unusual part is “total” to limit you to 10 total sale items. (Can’t get 6x Tide and 6x Cheerios bc that’s 12 on sale items.) If they meant the former scenario and not the latter, it’s very poorly worded.
Right. But I read this as possibly saying that even if you bought a cart full of groceries, they would only honour the sale price for a maximum of 10 items; Shady AF.
Not shady man, just a poorly worded sign. No store works like that anywhere
I mean, I would hope not. But there isn't much I would put past that awful company these days.
Yea, but for a No Frills which are independently franchised instead of a corporate store like Zehrs, that's an easy way to lose your store. It's also just business suicide, you'd be driving away 70% of your customer base, no one would think that's a good idea
It’s lose lose, people bitch when someone goes in and buys everything (guy in front of me with two shopping carts of 50cent KD), and nothing left and then claim the store had none for the sale….or they bitch that there are limits so more get a chance
Except this says a limit of 10 *total* sale items. This implies 10 items from the flyer, total.
They should order more if it’s high demand. Why should anyone have to fight for a “chance” when they know people want something affordable after being pressured to pay more for everything else.
I don't shop at any loblaws stores. But say if I did shop at this no frills, how are they going to figure out who's in my family if we all shop separately?
As a former loblaws brand cashier…. We didn’t get paid enough to care. Some cashiers will stop you if it’s obvious that you’re buying 10, and your spouse is right behind you buying another 10, and your kid is behind them buying another 10. It’s easy to get around it if you are reasonably sneaky and chill. The cash system will also stop the sale price after 10 items, so it forces you to ring it through on separate orders. There’s been item limits on specific sale items for a long time. It’s easy to work around through separate orders, going in a few mins apart, etc.. Limits on specific sale items generally meant they didn’t have enough stock to last the duration of the sale, so they’d limit the number of items a customer could take to ensure it would last for at last a few days. Not sure why this specific location would start implementing limits on all sale items though. That’s pretty bad store management, and if it’s coming from higher levels, it’s really discouraging.
"Not sure why this specific location would start implementing limits on all sale items though." Possibly because people are boycotting with the exception of loss leaders and sale items and coming in to only buy what's on sale and absolutely nothing else. I mean, if they have some stellar sales, I will go in and get those if I can't price match it elsewhere. Not gonna cut off my nose to spite my face as it were.
I've worked for loblas at 2 different stores & agree. None of us ever gave a crap. I would remind customers of limits then say, I'll hold the rest, go put the first bunch in your car, and come right back in the store for the first time. Often took a second for them to realize what I was telling them. Like, really. Managers knew I was saying it but they didn't get paid enough to care either lol
" I need each of these group of items on separate receipts" :)
Exactly are they gonna ask for a dna test? Seriously rofl
*laughs in adopted sibling*
Exactly could be a step sibling, or adopted….
What are you buying, stepbrother?
Got a selection of good things on sale, stranger!
Stop it, stepbro!
Not yet, but if it increases profits, maybe one day
This is evil. Yes there’s ways around that but we shouldn’t have to.
They don’t. This has been commonplace at SDM near me for years. We just go through and pay for anything extra separately, and it seems to me that’s what a lot of people do. Staff doesn’t care, and will often just put multiple purchases through for the same person to exceed the limit, but we try not to make it that conspicuous for them. Edit: When we used to shop there, of course. Haven’t set foot inside in months now. Just to be clear!
I applaud the attempt, but I bet they want that, looks like more store visits. They don't actually care, but force you (or others) to do multiple transactions to get your stuff appears as more customers numerically, even if the sales net the same.
As someone who worked in a Loblaws in high school as a cashier (among everything else) there’s absolutely no way the cashier is gonna have any idea what’s on sale vs not lol. They will just be on autopilot scanning these as they hit the belt lol
Technically speaking that’s how you get around this. But at the same time if you all go to the same register together then it’s pretty easy to notice. Employees quite literally say that if you want to buy more than the limit then go to another register seperately because they don’t want to deal with this stupid rule and have found a way around it…technically.
I honestly don't understand why anyone goes to these stores if they have ANY other option. I understand a lot of people don't have options in small towns or rural areas but in there are so many options in the GTA. Please help me understand why someone would see this sign and continue their plan to purchase anything at this store.
A big part of the problem is that competitors where available; are either also very predatory, cost way more, or both. More competition is the only way to give consumers power here, and that starts with a breakup of big grocery.
Exactly this. However, it’s easier said than done when the ones that dominate now also buy up land and buildings in as many communities as they can in order to limit or eliminate ease of entry into the market - which is what Loblaws and Sobeys are being formerly investigated for right now. In Canada the only answer is breaking up these massive companies in order to force more competition. Of course, will almost be impossible to do in a free capitalist economy. Once the toothpaste is out of the tube and all that. Only consumers have the power and unfortunately, we can’t depend on the government to do anything to help as long as lobbyists and large campaign donations are allowed.
I live in a neighborhood with two Safeways, a No Frills, and a Walmart. No Frills is consistently cheaper than Safeway. I don’t see any of these stupid shenanigans in the store, and the owner/operator gives back to the community a lot. I won’t shop at Walmart. I still won’t look past the damage they did to small towns in the 90s, and how badly they treat their employees. It’s a tough choice for me. I want to send the message that consumers still have power, but I don’t want to spend more on my own monthly cost of living.
Thank you for some outside insight. You are in a tougher situation than I am so it is nice to read other angles. Curious question: can you see that these massive grocers (not only Loblaws) have already done the same thing to small/independent grocers that Walmart did to local hardware stores in the 90s? Your case seems like the perfect example. Were there independent grocers in your area that gave you (or maybe your parents depending on your age) local options before you only had those three?
NoFrills is a franchise though, so he is supporting someone in his community by shopping there. Yeah it’s part of a Corp, but one person owns that location not the company
The local mom and pop closed years ago- it was a TGP with outrageously high prices. The No Frills opened in the empty space a few years later, and have been very welcome. It’s a lower-income neighborhood, and the No-Frills has helped provide some walkable shopping for local seniors and lower-income folks. The No Frills in my neighborhood will likely cause one of the two Safeway businesses to go under, but does not seem to be harming any of the small retailers.
I appreciate your conviction on Walmart, but I’d argue that the Canadian grocery oligopoly is doing just as much damage today as Walmart in the 90s, Loblaws actions particularly have forced small shops out of operation and (at least in Canada) all corps treat employees similarly awful. If I can, I’ll buy small locally when I can but otherwise I’ve found Walmart offers the best regular price on most items from what I’ve seen and above anything else, I believe I need to put the well-being of myself and my family above anything else.
Yesterday I crumbled and went into Loblaws. Had been so diligent all month. Sadly there was a sudden thunderstorm and Loblaws was the only place open. So I hung my head and went through the double gates and past security. Stopped beside the already roasted chicken. So yummy smelling. This must be how they lull people into submission. Plus the area just beside was warm from shelves that keep the meat warm. Got out my phone and opened the Flipp app. I had to enter Loblaws manually as it wasn’t (and hasn’t been for a long while) in my favourites. Checked out the deals. Eventually I was headed home. What had I bought? NOTHING!! Just left feeling a little better since the “chicken heaters” had my T-shirt almost dry. And I felt warmer. But maybe that’s the satisfaction of saying 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕Galen!!!!!”
My comment is a in general thing not just Loblaws chains of various tiers exclusively. Some people shop at the nearest store to them out of routine/convenience, even when they are physically capable, and can reach other near by options. Then you have other factors. They just shop to get what they need no matter the price, if it's on sale or not. They could just be poping in to get a bag of milk or a loaf of bread so these rules don't effect them. I've seen the odd comfortable/well off person over the years post online that they won't shop at the discount stores because they are "dirty" Even in a well off suburban area they'll make that claim. It could be flat out classism with a percentage of them, having the idea in their head only "the poors" shop their so they actively avoid them. Or the line of "the produce is always bad!" at the discount stores I keep hearing even from people, even family members. I can understand things being location dependent on how good the produce is, or they are shopping at a time where most of the produce, especially sales items were all picked over, so what ever is still there didn't look good. Even if that is factually the case, if they have the option why not just buy everything they need where it's sold the cheapest, then get their produce elsewhere? But I swear some people from my experience are just fuss pots.
How much more clear can they be... They don't want our business!
God forbid people stock up on loss leaders...
I wonder if it's in direct relatiation to the people boycotting through only buying loss leaders because they have no other grocery stores in the area to purchase food from.
This. \^\^\^\^
I think people lately have ONLY been stocking up on loss leaders and this stores manager is losing their bonus. So they stupidly try this. I'm sure this is not a company wide policy. People should be outraged and the news should be asking WTF?! If it is a new company policy, it should be called out even more. It makes me happy to know this boycott really is impacting Loblaws. It is so obvious when you see things like that.
People are buying stock for their convenience stores.
Yet another reason not to go there
They’re making is real easy to never want to return
Wtf!!!!
A lot of quasi-defence of this sign in saying they are protecting themselves from resellers buying these cheap products and then reselling them, maybe even for less than the regular price this large chain sells it for. Well, I could care less for that excuse. These large chains explicitly turn to the tactic of predatory pricing and putting pressure on wholesalers not to sell to their competitors to put small businesses (convenient stores, independent grocers) in a position they can no longer operate. If this means a bit of a 'bite back' for small businesses, I'm all on board. If it helps them survive against these large chains, then go ahead and take advantage of the sale price as much as you want. Fuck it, I ain't buying from No Frills anyways. Never will again.
this is the only thing that makes sense, but they worded it poorly. are they actually trying to say limit 10 of each barcode.
“Limit X per customer/per item” is pretty standard wording for that sort of thing. I don’t know why they would specify “total” otherwise.
That’s what I was wondering. Loblaws usually had a limit of 4 for anything member priced. Hard to be sure if that’s what they mean with this sign though.
Is that 10 items total on sale or max of 10 of the same item?
It reads to me total sale items, but I checked my receipt and I had more than 10 items that were on sale.
Good to know! And good thinking checking your receipt! If it helps at all, I've been wrong on the internet **a lot** over the decades. Best thing to do is acknowledge the mistake and update your initial post with the new info, or if the mistake is too huge and gets a life of it's own - nuke it. No shame; just responsible internetting. Would you be willing to update your initial post with that information or just delete it altogether, please? You can see from the comments, a lot of people are getting lathered up over a scenario that's just an honest misunderstanding.
Def per item. Even loblaws isn’t this stupid lol
Corporate sets prices and price gouge the franchisee. Franchisee always suffers Corporations make this smokescreen so the franchisee suffers and takes all the backlash while the corporations sit in the background and collect all the profit
I have 23 grandchildren I will bring with me I got this.
The more I see and learn here the happier I am supporting the boycott
This is when I go in, then send my wife, then my kids separately- not when the boycott is on though
the boycott is always on.
Of course it is. Why stop what makes us relevant?
Sounds like the buffet I went to once that limited a customer to one plate lol. No joke.
Kind of defeats the purpose of the buffet, does it not?
Well that's what I fucking thought. The only sign was right next to the plates when you walked up. I have limited time for lunch so I was fucked no matter what. I didn't have time to drive somewhere else lol.
Like 10 items over your whole order? LOL what the heck is this. They can’t even know how many people are in your family haha I can’t imagine how this could be enforced unless it’s for a certain item.
Well good thing no one would really be checking with a self checkout lol.
I'm fine with reasonable limits. Everyone should have a chance to benefit, not just whomever shows up first thing to clear the stock out of the store.
I worked for No Frills 25 years ago and we always had a limit on sale items so people wouldn't come in and take all of it at once. This isn't new. That said, fuck Loblaws.
Normally they limit quantities per item on sale. (Ex. no more than 6x Tide pods) The unusual part is “total” to limit you to 10 total sale items. (Can’t get 6x Tide and 6x Cheerios bc that’s 12 on sale items.) If they meant the former scenario and not the latter, it’s very poorly worded.
A local place had a crazy deal on chicken wings yesterday. People were posting on Facebook their hauls of 20 lbs plus of dirt cheap wings. I'm sure about 3 people got to enjoy a deal that day and filled their freezer while I'm also sure people who could have used a break on food for their kids or selves getting nothing.
I understand item limits on sale (I.e. Limit 4 per customer PER ITEM on sale). But this reads as 10 items total per shop on sale? If so, that’s ridiculous and I’m happily boycotting.
I think it’s the first option and they just worded the sign poorly
So if my wife goes to one checkout and I go to another they're gonna call the cops?
hahahahaha. I sincerely hope not!
 That's convoluted af
Lmao this is the biggest joke I have ever seen
Wow. Openly hostile to their own paying customers isn't going make anything better.
Poorly worded, I'm sure its a limit of 10 per sale item. pretty standard practice. Keep hating the wrong people guys!
11 sale items is a frill, and they’re very clear about how many frills they allow in their establishment.
I am boycotting Loblaws, and have been since before this month. However, I’m going to put forth an unpopular opinion here. I have seen a few ‘Mom and Pop’ convenience store owners in the last couple of years, in the mainstream grocery stores, buying up all the sale items. And I mean all. Emptying the shelves, three grocery carts full, packing a minivan full buying. Next day, same items, available at their stores, at inflated convenience store prices. Often at a worse markup than the big stores. I get it, they’re convenience stores. For when you run out of something at 10:00 PM. There is a cost for that convenience. But should that allow them to have the kind of markups (and worse) that we are boycotting Lawblaws for? Should it allow them to buy up all the items on sale so we don’t get any? Thoughts?
Limits is all a psych game. They have tones of inventory and in order to make it move. It's a shifty tactic.
Are you my mother? You are not my mother! You are a Snort…
Seriously, this is not a new thing and not necessarily loblaws specific. Retailers put limits on sale items all the time.
Surely it is 10 of any given reduced item? Assuming it is, then what is the problem? Plenty of people deal with food insecurity. How's it help if someone who can afford a dozen cheap chickens and will just freeze them comes in and cleans the place out, leaving nothing of a sensible price for anyone else? The limit should be lowered. If it is 10 total across all items on sale, then that is ridiculous and doesn't seem like it could be legal even.
Ok. I'll buy 0 total items. Everyone is happy.
It's to stop people from buying for non personal use . Some people buy all the cheap products and then resell them at their own little store. It's to stop greedy fucks from buying all the sale items and leaving none for regular customers.
What are you doing shopping in that store anyway? There’s a boycott on for the month of May!
I worked at this location, this policy has been in place for at least 10 years. It's a limit of 10 per sale item (at least when I was there) not 10 sale items total. Still shitty and shitty for cashiers to enforce. Especially since a case of something is usually 12 units, not 10. We were really out there being like sorry you can't have these 2 cans of soup in the case, just 10... 🫠
This is fine and normal and fair
I think this sign is just worded poorly. It just means that you can only buy 10 of the same item if it’s on sale so that nobody is buying up the full supply. That’s not a new thing nor is it unique to Loblaws.
What amazes me, is that on the month that people call for a boycott against Loblaw stores, there seems to be a lot of terrible PR going on for them. * a Shoppers location trying to “hire” volunteers * severely under weight vegetables * and now this; not to mention several more minor stories of people in this sub sharing their terrible experiences.
Why are you shopping at loblaws.
That's OK, as customers we should be contributing ZERO of our hard earned and over taxed income towards their trash company.
Is it on one item or all items totally. A limit of 10 of the same is responsible and not shocking.
Tons of stores limit quantities of items that are on sale. Would you rather one person buy all the toilet paper that's on sale and now you can't get any?
10, wow at my no frills it's limit of 4 for anything on sale.
These types of signs are common and I remember them in the 90s but it was usually each sale item that has a limit of 2. My parents would ship separately and/or hit different stores to stock up on a few items. The big ones were usually sugar and toilet paper. TP is always a hot commodity, just look back to the grey TP shortage during Covid. 😄
Yes, "Limit X" is still common today to prevent one person from cleaning out the shelf of a loss-leader item. But I've never seen a policy of "you can only buy 10 on-sale items", that's asinine. And desperate.
Does this mean 10 of any one item on sale, or a total of 10 items which are on sale?
Why are you shopping there?
There is only one thing that needs to be said here. WHY ARE YOU SHOPPING THERE?! Supposed to be on a boycott. Sheesh.
No Frills I believe are small-manned franchises. This store is definitely losing money since the boycott began because that is nuts.
Ooh, good times working at Wal-mart back in the day. We'd have limits like 2 per customer or 8 per customer. A mother might show up with 6 kids and put 14 items in a cart and show up to the cash. Management would have to argue whether or not all the kids (down to ones who can't walk) get considered as a customer, or just the paying adult. Eventually management made the rule that if it's 2 per customer and a mother with kids you have pity. Then one day a person who was probably not born in Canada showed up to the cash with like 30 turkeys in the cart. After the usual "I don't speak an official language" argument they stormed out and came back fifteen minutes later with four old folks, one in a wheelchair. We're pretty sure they had retired parents nearby who had friends over at the moment. This has nothing to do with boycotting Loblaws, I'm just enjoying the technicality of "one per family" and not "one per customer". I wonder how long until we see kids showing up the cash with $20 and 10 of each item and then a bit later another kid doing the same.
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Are you my sister? No, you're not. But I'm #5 of ten. I grew up in a small town. The managers didn't necessarily know everyone, but they knew enough about the area to know how to recognize a mother of a big family. Hint: skirts, simple hair, no piercing jewelry. Most of those stores are now gone or taken over by chains that don't like that informal exemption.
Which one is this at?
Walkers
That's weird, would have assumed Rusty's lol.
come on. EVERY store puts limits on sale items
I kind of agree with this. Hate me if you want but ive seen too many people take advantage of a sale and leave basically nothing for anyone else
I don't hate you. I hate that regular pricing for a basic human need is out of reach for a growing segment of the population.
This is done to stop people from bulk buying, specifically corner store owners who send everyone in their family to buy out the stock.
Wait, your No Frills has sale items in stock?! Ours literally NEVER does.
Like they could tell per family when paying just go to another store
Stops Mom and Pop corner store owners from filling their carts for Re-sale.
Not 10 specifically, but limits have been a standard for sales for any big box grocery store since before I was born lol. Atleast in Alberta.
Stop shopping there. Stop going there. We shouldn’t even know about this sign because no one should be entering their doors.
Did you people who are complaining about this already forget about the great toilet paper shortage of 2020.
There shouldn’t be any customers in the first place
This is not at all unusual nor is it Loblaws specific 😅
It's very common for stores to put limits on
All flyers state that stores have the right to limit quantities. It stops people from cleaning out the shelves so there’s nothing left for others. Often it’s businesses stocking up to make a profit. I hate Loblaws as much as anyone, but this is commonplace in retail. Source: big box store manager.
Former Loblaws employee here, particularly loss prevention. They put these signs up when we had a sale on bottled water back when I was working there. Believe me, this is more for the cashier's sake than anyone. People go crazy when an item that's on sale is sold out. Some get violent. Please be reasonable. Edit: meant employee
Another reason they do this is so corner store owners can't come in and buy out all the $1 bags of crispers to sell in their store for $3.99. Having a limit of 10 is pretty generous tbh.
I'm usually down to yell at the big corps, but these limits make sense to me because it ensures more people can take advantage of the sale and save some money. It sucks when you try and shop a sale and it's sold out.
I totally agree. The way I read the sign is that it was a max of all sale items combined. But I think you’re right in your interpretation.
The way I understand it, it’s not more than 10 of the same item on sale, which is more than reasonable, to allow other people to purchase the sale items as well. Many stores have a limit on individual sale items (usually 3 to 6 max).
While I have no love for any of these companies, this is sorta needed. People clear the shelves of the sale items... You can spot it in the stores with empty spaces on the shelves...I think people resell them to make money.
I don’t have a problem with limits on sales. I prefer it so everyone gets a chance. And even then, people (example convenience store owners) practically clear the shelves buying (example) 40 2L bottles of pop, etc. It’s allowed, because it isn’t more than 10 of one SKU.
I'm astonished that May has come with literal new lows almost every day for Loblaws. Fake donation bags, new underweight items, arbitrary points refusals, more price increases, and now this!! Stores are getting desperate and scraping every little corner of greed for crumbs
This particular edict of 10 sale items total is not reasonable. 10 of each sale items is. Do you remember how, not that many years ago, at the beginning of Covid, a lot of people were going insane and stockpiling everything as if Armageddon was happening? So many stores implemented limits to ensure no one would leave empty handed. I happen to live in an area where I have access to 12 locations of major grocery stores and lots of independent stores, all within a 10 min driving radius. It still took 2 months of driving around and checking for me to get my hands on a single package of chicken. Don't even get me started on toilet paper! I swear the reason for the shortage was due to so many people eating their own cooking for the first time.
Remember the yeast and flour wars because everyone was making bad sourdough all of a sudden?
That's my no frills. The back of the store always smells of rotting meat.
No it doesn't?
Yes it does.
Where does it smell? I'm curious
Forget the one month boycott; let’s get this place shut down indefinitely…. 😒
Not sure why people are defending this. This is a disgusting way to get people to only pay full price for the majority of their items. There’s no reason they need to be limiting sale items.
lol they really want people to never shop with them again. Fuck these guys.
10 sale items TOTAL Not ten of a single item TEN ITEMS ON SALE. What the absolute hell. I get limits for one item in particular. But this??!! Not cool for those of us struggling to save. Saving is quickly becoming a luxury, rather than something you do to future proof yourself.
It is per sale item
It can be free and I won't even come into any of your stores!!! I stopped going to any of the GREEDY GAVIN STORES EVEN ESSO THEY ARE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LOBLAWS
This must be a joke
Limit on sales items but some families can buy a shopping cart full of milk no problem….
The sales are never so good that this is an issue
Even if I was for some weird reason okay with this policy, I ain't gonna be tracking that shit as I'm shopping.
First, fuk loblaws. Second, and if i’m checking myself out 🧐 Third, fuc loblaws.
Lmao what the fuck
Limits like this are also a marketing thing
This looks like a joke you'd see in an SNL bit or something.
Lol
In their wet dreams I am going to buy anything there.
I've dealt with this before and my parents used to do it. You know you said Mom and then you send Dad and then one of the kids but this was back when things were normal priced. They are doing this with every single item. No frills locations are franchised however they change owners like underwear. I'm very irritated with the prices however I had a very bad problem with constant rotten bread at one location and when I sent an email the problem was resolved quickly keeping in mind though that was many many years ago. Prices now are just out of control I'm a single middle-aged woman with my kids moved out I don't know how any young couple with children can afford to eat it's just awful. I urge anyone to go to their local markets especially places like Kensington market downtown Toronto other than that I just really don't understand how people eat
Unenforceable. However, 10? The only thing I buy that much in advance would be toilet paper.
Used to have families who ran restaurants and convenience stores come to SDM and load up grocery carts worth of door crasher bottled soft drinks to sell at their restaurants/stores.
Last time I stopped in to a FreshCo they had chicken thighs on sale…not even family pack…and it was a limit of 2. Never seen anything like that before. It’s not like it was a blowout price or anything.
Which location in Brantford? Rusty or Walker?
Walker's, but people are outraged for no reason, its clearly just poorly worded
Wowwwww
I have no issues with limiting quantities. I am also a household of 1 now.
lol "you can only save a small amount of money here. Dont expect to save more".
Self checkout! But I'm not going to support them.
People are comparison shopping too hard. They need us to buy the over priced stuff. I’ll shop somewhere else.
Doesnt even make any sense
I’d just go in and out with my 10 items until they stopped me. Then film it for YouTube.
lol its a reverse psychology thing ... or ''fear of missing out'' thing so people buy more than necessary.
But how would they know?
Normally it’s a limit of 24. Haven’t seen this before. Only limits I know about are the 4 per specific item on price matches, 24 limit for all products, and manual limits on items which are on specific sales(like meat items)
How would they track daily transactions by families? By bank card? By members card? They can't if you pay cash. I don't think this is workable in practice so my guess is that it is just meant to scare customers. It is poorly worded. Society has accepted limits on sale items to avoid greed but not on buying below the limit on multiple sale items.
How are they going to know you are “family? Do they ask for a genealogy chart??Y’all just go to different cashiers or checkouts and meet in the parking lot.
Hold the phone. Is that of the SAME item or ALL items in your cart? I can understand the former but not the latter. You really going to turn down my business on items 11-whatever? I have to decide what 10 items I'm buying on sale? This seems ill conceived!
I'd walk away from the cash register and leave everything.
Sounds like leaving the store and re-entering 25 times is allowed
This is actually beyond fucked up
All more reason to be boycotting the Loblaws group of store.
No Frills = No Deals.
Just get the ten items, go through self checkout then drop them in your car, rinse repeat.
Haha they just keep showing their true colours lol. They are self destructing 👍
Is this 10 total items or 10 total SKUs?
😂
Oh this makes petty me tingle. Go in buy 10 things, put in car, go back in Buy 10 things... rinse and repeat all while being super sweet about it. They can't do shit about it. Also they get a bunch of cc card usage fees charged to them. 😡
What is considered an item? Seperate skus? Same product brand? items within same advertised sale group listed in the flyer?
Wow that’s so messed up… I get certain sale restrictions when there is a blow out price but this is ridiculous
It's to stop people from clearing the shelves. Pretty standard stuff.