Loblaw chairman Galen Weston and the company's new CEO are pushing back against critics who blame the grocery giant for soaring food prices, as a month-long boycott of the retailer gets underway.
"As a well-known company and Canada's largest grocer, it is natural that Loblaw would be singled out as a focal point for media and government and of course consumer frustrations," said Weston, assuring shareholders the company continues to act with integrity. There have also been calls to steal from Loblaw, something the boycott organizers say they are not affiliated with. Both Bank and Weston slammed the idea, saying they are hopeful Canadians will reject it."There's a group of people who have been relentlessly propagating a narrative that they know is false,” Weston said. "And it is now being used to justify theft on a grand scale.
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