I’m old enough to remember when empty shelves were synonymous with communism.
Our frozen aisles are in trouble. Nestlé's departure from Canada will eliminate many options in 6 months from now. The void will be significant. This could make many frozen foods more expensive, at least for a while. pic.twitter.com/ImS1xqwnti
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) February 5, 2023
That’s the plan. Eliminate the food in order to eliminate the people.
I didn’t know that. This is the story
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/why-delissio-pizzas-and-other-nestle-products-will-disappear-from-canadian-stores-1.6257077
Sounds like they are going back to their core business
Good riddens.
That crap is full of seed oils, msg, dyes, highly processed grains, corn syrup derivatives and various other ‘ stuff ‘ that leads to obesity/diabetes.
Maybe some will be forced now to buy raw ingredients and turn on that dusty stove, better for their health in the long run.
Too bad Nestle couldnt leave our market completely.
Actually they probably could. Thanks to Justin, Canadians can now admire China’s less basic selection of Nestle items:
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202105/08/WS60962bd5a31024ad0babcb27.html
Weird decision, if I’m a competitor, I’m seeing opportunity. The best frozen pizza in Canada is Mike’s pepperoni and bacon stuffed crust. Delissio is O.K. for the cost, not great, but better than anything McCain was putting out 40 years ago. Another option is 7-11’s frozen pepperoni, again not great but they don’t go cheap on the pepperoni.
They want to focus on their mealworm and cricket offerings.
Dr Oetker bought the McCain pizza business a few years ago. Now they’ll be the only high volume frozen pizza, so yes as a practical monopoly the prices will skyrocket more than they already have
I been buying the Kraft pizza kit since the 1970’s and I always put lots of my favourite toppings on. It’s more expensive than frozen pizza but the kids like the homemade ones better. And making them is a family affair, except I always have to make the dough.
I’ve never been a big consumer of their frozen products which in my opinion should be in the junk food category but empty shelves and less food options are never a good thing. Folks will have to live with less sodium and refined carbohydrates for a time I guess.
And it does seem like an odd decision to focus on pet food, and coffee cream. Water I can understand, as the markup on bottled water is criminal.
Declining profit margins are a feature of the 40 year decline in the rate of interest that we are currently in the midst of. It’s not always possible, and in fact rare, for firms to simply raise prices to add to the profit. The tapped out consumer can’t afford that. So they are faced with a stark choice: either accept the slimming margin, or exit the business. Nestle’s has picked the latter.
It does not help that we have governments in this country which are wholeheartedly committed to load all sorts of useless ingredients like carbon taxes and renewable energy schemes on entrepreneurs whose main effect is to collapse profit margins.
So the margins aren’t there shipping to canada, in freezer trucks. Who would have thought
Well their pizzas at the local Sobey’s runs around 8 dollars no thanks. I did buy a couple when they went on sale for 1.99 for my sister. I absolutely hate frozen dinners, really they are gross.
Half of the frozen pizza Dept. in my local Safeway costs almost $10.00/pizza. No. Just a hard NO. for their hard tack shrinkflated pizzas. The cart slips right past that aisle. In fact, there is very little I buy down at least 25% of my local Safeway aisles … about the only frozen foodstuff I ever buy is ice cream … in the heat of August.
Cooking fresh food for my wife is not a drag …
Last night was mushroom risotto with shrimp and asparagus tips.
Kenji – when you post something like this, you REALLY REALLY need to include the recipe.
Cheers!!
Kenji, grocery stores are where we buy our staple foods. Rice, barley, legumes. Canned goods also. Otherwise we buy our meat, eggs and root veg from our local farmers. Root veg from our garden keeps until mid Feb, hutterites always have enough to get us into June.
We cook from scratch and very nearly never do anything packaged. Smoked a cross rib roast, garlic mashed potato and roasted beets.
Cheers,
There are a lot of families were both parents have to work to survive.
They use these products a lot. It will hurt them somewhat.
Can not see why people think it is good to have less choices.
Many don’t have the options many suggest.
It’s nice to be high and mighty, but many are struggling to fill their families belly’s what with Justin Stalin’s engineered Famine for the sheep.
I think its best to really learn how to cook these days to make sure the ingredients stay on store shelves.. Otherwise its Bug Mac meals..
Nestlé’s business is going teats up.. I bet half of their staff work from home and the other half are disgruntled looking for a big pay raise because they are now expected to do three jobs.. You know, management shows up with a mask on its face and rages that the hourly paid workers are not running the place properly.. Oh, yes..
Upper management would rather be WOKE than do their jobs.. As a worker you are just a inconvenience.. Begging my boss every day to take out the garbage like he is a teenager.. Its not a joke..
Meh…stopped eating processed shite years ago.
Not to worry. The marketplace will fill the shelves.
If your not opposed to frozen food they are ways to save money.
I’m always disappointed after a frozen pizza, no matter how much it was discounted.
We buy premade pizza dough from Italian bakeries, spread it on regular baking pans and add too much of whatever we like.
We don’t don’t buy grated mozzarella because they coat it something to stop it from sticking together.
Make two and wrap up the leftover slices.
Part of the problem is the special bilingual labels. They have to have a separate production run to put them in the special boxes.
Good point. Mike’s comes out of Quebec so no problem for them. Everyone, yes, frozen pizza is the worst option, but if you have to, try it.
True Kate. More technically, shortages were largely due to a supply problem based on Communism’s hostility to market forces with respect to deciding what to produce and in what quantity because all of the information-rich economic ‘signals’ built into the price mechanism were eliminated, not to mention there was no competition among suppliers, distributors and retailers. We see many of the same distortions of market forces in the Canadian Way of Doing Business – e.g., protected oligopolies, supply management, various trade barriers, etc. And the Canadian rank and file will just sit there – “the price of being Canadian” – and take it in the fundament.
I’m amazed. Y’all discussng frozen pizza while I’m realing at the very thought of losing Stouffer’s, and Lean Cuisine. This is a generational thing I can tell because…. nobody my age ( which isn’t that old) gives a füćķ about frozen pizza. And yes whether it gets through or not is of more interest than the comment itself.
1) Justin Trudeau hates free markets and corporations. Nestle has frozen food plants in the US that they are keeping open. Why should Nestle open frozen food plants in Canada – right now they have none.
2) I buy Stouffer’s and DeGiorno frozen foods in the US and Nestle has a huge frozen food presence here. Nestle has some 147 locations in the US and they are expanding.
I used to eat delissio pizza once and a while. It’s convenient and cheaper than delivery when on sale.
Then I got rather ill right after eating. Who can say the cause. Virus, toxin, rejecting bill gates nanochips. Consequently, I became averted to eating frozen pizza.
Since then the only trip to the frozen food aisle has been veggies.
However, it will certainly be an opportunity for a competitor. US groceries seem to have massive amounts of frozen pizza.
We won’t miss it. The only frozen foods we buy are peas and ice cream (Hagen Daz). I don’t think I’ve ever had a decent frozen pizza.
On a related tangent my wife wanted to buy something and decided Walmart was the best place to find it. She was amazed when she went to the supercenter and found row after row of empty shelves where her desired purchase would normally be.
Try buying frozen potato chips in Australia at present!
Good thing I don’t buy such plebeian crap as Stouffer’s frozen pizza. My pizzas are always made with the finest wheat hand-gathered in Argentina by Indian princesses and topped with buffalo mozzarella made by a strict order of Cisterian monks in the Tyrolean Alps and the freshest pepperoni plucked from the pepperoni trees in an obscure area of Pepperonia, Italy. They cost a fortune but they’re totally worth it just to know that you peasants can’t afford it.
Oh, wait, no, I have two teenage boys that practically live on these cheap-ass $2 Totino’s pizza and it’s a good thing because I can’t afford the luxury of store-brand frozen pizza. Now excuse me while I go heat up some left-over mac-n-cheese for dinner,
I can’t imagine buying tier 2 frozen pizza for $10 at Safeway/Sobeys
I bought 2 PC pizzas from Superstore today at 3.50 each and with a couple extras thrown on top is a nice snack away from my normal food fare, additionally that is a dinner for $5. I don’t think there are any restaurants which sell meals for $5 these days.
I tried the Dr Oetker brand pizza once, I’ve never, EVER, had a worse tasting pizza in my life. It was complete garbage, and I don’t hesitate to tell people considering a pizza purchase that they’ll just be mad at themselves for buying that crap.
If I was married, and my wife brought home Dr. Oetker brand pizza, I’d cook it, and show her as I chopped it up into tiny bits and put it on top of the dog food. Hopefully the dogs don’t puke it all up inside the house.
But do agree with the empty shelves being a reminder of what was shown to us in grade 7-8 … “this is a food counter in the USSR, see the empty shelves…?”
Make friends with farmers and learn how to cook. No big deal.