Whereabouts would one find those in Toronto?Lays are awful potato chips.
Best potato chips ever, bar none, are Bret's. They're imported from France and not easy to find, but if you ever see them, pick up about 10 bags. Amazing.
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Whereabouts would one find those in Toronto?
The point is that the high price is much higher then the rate of inflation. That is what they are fighting against. A normal price increase is understandable but you raise the price higher then your new expense cost, that is just getting greedy.Just another victim of inflation, shipping disruption, and labor shortages. Those additional costs have to be paid for by someone. Each step along the supply chain usually absorbs some of the cost in the short-term, but it eventually ends up trickling down to the consumer. Loblaws balked for now, but this is a wider spread issue than just chips.
Straight out of the Walmart playbook.Loblaws is fighting the price increase because they are trying to wield their power in the market. They have rolled out multiple cost reductions against their suppliers every year so it’s bullshit that they are doing it for their customers.
I bake my own potato chips.I don't eat chips so it won't affect me.
I will take a bag of sour cream and onion please. Thanks.I bake my own potato chips.![]()
Depends. Have they been eating costs for a period of time leading up to this bigger increase, which has caused their profit margin to shrink? What factors are being included in the cost increase (increased ingredient costs, transportation costs, labor costs and overhead costs)? Companies make profit by marking up these costs in order to have margin. Unless Frito suddenly decided to increase their profit margin to a higher percentage of revenue, and this would be a weird time to do it, I don't see what they've done wrong. If they do nothing, they'll eventually eat costs into oblivion.The point is that the high price is much higher then the rate of inflation. That is what they are fighting against. A normal price increase is understandable but you raise the price higher then your new expense cost, that is just getting greedy.
Thanks. If I'm ever out that way I'll pop in.McEwan Foods in Don Mills often has them in stock.
Nice. Can I ask how you do it and what type of potatoes you use.I bake my own potato chips.![]()
Not out of the realm of possibility at all. Soy boy Galen is a shyster.I think Galen and the Frito boys cooked up the whole story to benefit both parties. Loblaw benefits by justifying higher prices on every item in the store, Frito benefits by raising their prices. In the end Loblaw will say that there is a huge demand for Frito Lays produces so they have to give in and stock them. Free publicity for Frito and they get to sell their products at a higher price.