People are accusing Loblaws of stealing due to a picture of apples circulating online
"This is plain theft and no one should be able to hide behind a white collar." 👀
The exterior of a Loblaws.
The Loblaws boycott officially kicked off on May 1 and many are taking to Reddit to share their frustrations with the grocer.
On the Reddit forum r/loblawsisoutofcontrol, someone posted a picture of what they say eight pounds of apples actually weighed when using the in-store scale and it has people accusing the company of theft.
"This was a few days ago (pre boycott) but I thought we could always use daily reminders of why we're upset," the poster explained.
"There were two bags left of 8lb Naturally Imperfect apples, one was 7lbs and this one was 6.5lbs," they continued.
"It's literally stealing from customers," commented one person.
"Yes, we should be asking Parliament why there aren't criminal penalties for people who commit their crimes through companies," someone said in response to the idea that there should be a percentage of weight difference that qualifies as a criminal offence. "This is plain theft and no one should be able to hide behind a white collar."
While getting to eight pounds on the dot is likely difficult due to individual apples being different weights, one apple is very unlikely to weigh as much as a pound, so the margin of error for being up to 1.5 pounds short seems high.
And while scales available for in-store use might not be perfect or meant to be relied upon for weighing apples like that, it's not the first time that products seemingly didn't add up at Loblaws.
On the same Reddit forum, someone posted a picture of their President's Choice brand bacon weighing 481 grams instead of 500 grams.
Similarly, another post showed PC cooked shrimp that's supposed to weigh 340 grams allegedly only weighing 296 grams.
The same forum is responsible for the current boycott of Loblaws where they're asking people to avoid the store and other Loblaw-owned companies for the month of May.
Narcity reached out to Loblaws for comment but did not hear back by the time of publishing.
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