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Grocery Stores

The Food System’s Control Center

From: Grocery Story

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The anti-competetive business as usual practiced by Canada’s grocery giants and the testing of the boundaries of the law is described. Lost in this regime is flavour, genetic diversity, and nutrition, while loss of product through 50% food waste is enabled. Price competition, margin shielding and "pay to play" store shelf space requirements, as well as private labels and other strategies that are punitive to suppliers are described.

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John Steinman

Jon Steinman is the producer and host of Deconstructing Dinner, the internationally syndicated radio show and podcast (2006-2010) and streaming television series. Jon coordinates and curates the annual Deconstructing Dinner Film Festival and was an elected director from 2006-2016 of the Kootenay Co-op, Canada’s largest independent retail consumer food co-op, serving as Board President from 2014-2016. He lives in Nelson, BC.