I just had to share about a new snack I discovered... can't quite call it my "new favourite," as that will remain reserved for my sweet tooth favourites.
If you're the least bit adventurous, give these Japanese Wasabi & Honey Rice and Corn Crisps a try, from "the blue menu" (President's Choice) at Superstore.
Keep an eye on your flyers... We read that the Superstore is doing a mega-inventory clearance of their "non-food" items to prepare for the entrance of the new "Walmart Supercenters" coming soon to Canada.
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Will have to give those a try next time I venture in that store.
I am looking forward to a walmart mega store coming to a town near me... I hope!
How do most Canadians feel about WalMart? A lot of Americans don't like WalMart...much like Starbucks. They have spread across the US and the globe like a virus, forcing local stores out of business. It doesn't stop me from shopping there (or at Starbucks for that matter). But I was just wondering.
Dunn, you would tend to find the same attitude here... Canadians know that they should "shop local" and boycott WalMart, etc, but we are fickle with our money (myself fully included) and shop there anyway. They do have quite a philanthropic arm to them, good policies regarding hiring, wages, 'under-represented populations,' scholarships, community charity support, etc... but I must admit I don't know much about the political side (importing their goods, undercutting their suppliers for lower costs, etc).
I have heard some the arguments against WalMart: low wages, undercutting supplier, buying from manufacturers that use child labour. I don't know how much of that is true. I am no genius economist, but I do understand that supply and demand of the market decides things like wages, costs, and prices. As to child labour, I was a child labourer once, putting stickers on plastic balls to make them into globes... in fact, you may have used one of those while you were in elementary school. Did I feel taken advantage of? Not one bit. On the contrary, I think it kept me busy while hanging out with "coworkers" (my friends) and prevented me from setting things on fire (which I did once or twice when we were bored out of our skulls). Anyway, that's a story for another time. My point is, I don't think WalMart get to be at its level of success just by being a bully. One can learn a lot by thinking about what they did right to get there.
wYeah, it's interesting when you consider boycotting big corporations. Unless you're super-educated about what each entity operates, where do you draw the line? If I don't buy Nike, what do I do about the crackers I want to buy, since somewhere along the line they belong to a tobacco company? Or the DVD player, if some if its components are made in a country that allows what I feel are unethical or immoral things to go on? I think at some point you have to have some faith that watchdogs will come into play.
I actually was asking more along the lines of just another big American company making money in Canada.
Hi Dunn, Thanks for contributing to our morning discussion time :)
Canadians tend to be less openly patriotic than Americans... it kind of boils down to the same fickle reasoning I think... Zellers just doesn't cut it. Zellers is Canada's version of 'WalMart'... part of the Hudson's Bay Company group, supposedly being bought out by Americans anyway [http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/yourspace/hudson_bay.html])
The other aspect of it really boils down to: how many products of "Canadian owned" businesses are Canadian? so what makes a business Canadian (going outside of, say, coffee shops... Tim K you could have some comments on the coffee shop side of things...)
I guess all this to say, if we don't embrace globalization as a good thing, we're probably in trouble (Karl recently read "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" and "The World is Flat" which both provoke deeper thoughts and discussions around globalization)
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