46 Replies to “More Pavilions At No Frills”

  1. Check out most fast food stores in Saskatchewan, and certainly every Tim Hortons. This has been underway in earnest since Covid. Local restaurants closing, the survivors being sold.

    Proportionate to the U.S., Canada’s borders appear to have been breached far worse. It’s no accident.

    1. It’s been going on long before covid. I remember when visiting our son in Calgary in 2011 we made a side trip to Edmonton to visit a close aunt. We stopped in Red Deer for a coffee (about half way) and I thought for a moment I was in Manila.

      As for the No Frills, it’s part of the Loblaws group so anything goes a long as it makes buck for the Westons. The layoffs came just before Christmas but after Diwali. I would let it be know I would take my business elsewhere.

      1. The local Loblaws affiliate is all Flipper, The Walmart is Red Dot Indian. A local popular restaurant got hundreds of applications from Canadians and hired all Flippers. Everyone must be lying when they apply for visas, yet nobody goes to jail.

      2. Extra Foods is also Loblaws.
        It’s doubtful anyone investigates the claim of cannot find any local Canadians to do the job.

      3. The crooked, price fixing of bread, who accepted 15 million $ tax payer money from trudeau to buy “green ” coolers from China, the Westons who also own Shoppers Drug Mart. Are you talking about them?

      1. With a population of just over 5,000 there may be more than one. It’s in northern Saskatchewan so I’m guessing maybe it’s packed with relatives of the new owners. It would an easy target for a boycott if there is any alternative at all.

        1. Looks to be two grocery stores – Co-op and No Frills. Only one Tim Hortons so limited employment there 😉

  3. The same thing happened in my little rural town, after Covid every singe fast food stores including Tim Hortons all staff replaced with people-mostly males-from India. I’d boycott the grocery store, they can replace us as staff and we can replace them as our local grocery store.

    1. You can’t when all the grocery stores do it, which is pretty much what happened around me. There are a few new grocery stores, but they are specifically indo/pak halal grocery stores. There aren’t many options left in my city of 200k people that was 95 percent white a decade ago.

  4. Loblaw Corporate Social Responsibility wants you to report unethical behaviour, this link was derived from the Meadow Lake Saskatchewan store page:

    Contact us

    esg@loblaw.ca(Open in a new tab)
    As a part of our culture of integrity, it is important that non-compliant and unethical matters are reported.

    Call the Integrity Action Line: 1-800-525-7868

    1. Below is cut right from their CSR / ESG rainbows and frickin’ unicorns webpage:

      “Advancing social equity

      Our social responsibility extends throughout our workforce and into the communities we serve. We are determined to build a diverse, inclusive workforce, and support the health of women and children, who are the building blocks of prosperous communities.“

      A department of a-holes at Loblaws collect six figure salaries cutting and pasting this crap from their university textbooks.

      1. Social equity should include white women who wear glasses. Otherwise it’s discrimination disguised as equity.

        BTW immigration isn’t all bad. In Timmins you couldn’t find a taxi to save your life 2 years ago. Now it’s run by a group from East India. Not only do the driver’s give you their cell numbers so you can text when you need a ride – works awesome – but they know where all the good Indian food is. The last time I took a cab in Toronto I told the driver I would only be a few minutes and needed a ride to my next stop. He flipped me a card and said “call dispatch”.

      2. But No Frills are franchise stores, Loblaws franchised about 300 of them when they bought out the chain, so the people of each town are at the mercy of the franchisee.
        In small town a like Meadow Lake, it might be the only major grocery store in town, with the nearest competition being along drive away.
        We should never have expanded the TFW program in Canada.
        It figures that the program was started by PET. “The federal government of Canada started the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) in 1973. The program was created to help employers fill labor shortages by hiring foreign workers. The program was initially focused on hiring high-skilled workers, such as nurses and farm workers. However, the program has since expanded to include low-skilled workers and other types of foreign workers, such as in-home caregivers and foreign academics.”

        But that is the ugly side of capitalism that most good conservatives deny, a business is free to hire whomever they want and if the price of labor gets too high, fire them and replace them with somebody who will work cheaper. The concept of a united community in Canada, as in this case, is completely unknown to the franchise owners from India.
        I rarely visit fast food places, but when I do it’s always TFW’s with a minimal grasp of English. Even when buying a lottery ticket I have to point to the BCLC display card to show them which donation to the provincial government I want to purchase. They do know how to say,”good luck” afterward, but I never experience that.

    1. Labour law is provincial jurisdiction, unless it is a federally regulated industry, like banking and telecom.
      Ask Moe.

      1. “Labour law is provincial jurisdiction, unless it is a federally regulated industry, like banking and telecom.”

        Thanks, Dan. This would never fly in BC, then.

  6. That’s a garbage move on the local No Thrills franchise. I generally like Loblaws, and more so if the alternative is garbage Safeways/Sobeys/Calgary Coop.

    It’s important to note that the No Thrills franchises are locally owned. The ones I’ve been to are known as “Fred’s No Thrills” for example, and not corporate entities fully controlled by someone in a corner office in Toronto.

    It’s a local decision, but see if corporate knows what the local franchise is up. to…

    1. Marc, do you seriously believe the No Frills “owners” are owners in any traditional sense? I don’t know specifically how No Frill’s dealers work but gas station/convenience stores owners don’t own anything. They get a percentage of each product category out of which they cover the expenses and any profit. The company always makes a profit. If perchance a dealer makes too much profit, by coincidence the product category margins get reduced. Some owner.

      1. I think they meet the criteria for owning a franchise in tier 2 Canada, and am aware they actually own none of the building, and if they’re good they don’t sit on owned resale items in the store either, everything in the store is leased possibly even the refrigeration units on the roof and shelving, while the people who unfortunately work for them are leased as well, by the hour…

        So the franchise they’d own, is mostly the right to place their name beside the “No Frills” sign, and be responsible for the cash flow being maintained, and gain a slightly better income than the crew chief or however the supervisory staff are referred.

        Note, I don’t agree with those locals firing the long term staff and replacing them with new to Canada type of people.
        There is no shortage of types of franchises, I’d never buy into any of them but it works for some people.

        “Seb” below in the commentary outlines the problem of hiring foreign citizens, noting that there is a gov’t kickback for hiring them and as always it’s the tax payer who is at a loss.

        So, I blame the #Libranos, and their supporters, and any other gov’t which hasn’t reminded this crap.

  7. Traditional Canadians are not allowed to discriminate on the basis of race, and most wouldn’t anyway, it is not who they are. The new east indian owners of the no frills franchise, are not traditional Canadians and so can discriminate as they please. Remember, only white people can be racist. If you are unsure, watch if the former employees complain. Well connected traditional white Librano commission sitters, or judges or whoever will scold them for not being progressive. The CBC marvels at why traditional Canadians hate Trudeau? Maybe replace Rosie Barton with six TFW’s (working on a pound for pound basis) and see if she can figure it out.

    1. “One more thing….if any of those fired voted for Justine the Turd, you voted for this, so suck it up, buttercup.”

      Yup. It’s small town Saskatchewan, though, so probably no Trudeau voters worked there.

  9. These are the financial benefits provided to the employer for hiring a temporary foreign worker. We have been sold out!

    What is the government incentive to hire immigrants in Canada?
    A wage-subsidy of up to 50%, or $10,000 maximum, for the cost of first few months onboarding is available to eligible employers. Below you will find information about eligibility requirements and an overview of the process, as well as the forms to complete to pursue this opportunity.

  10. Well, people of Meadow Lake, I guess you know what store to never EVER shop in again, right?

    Play with the bull, get the horn. Make it good and hard, my friends.

    1. Well my Canadian friends … I believe Jesus, the reason for the Season … admonished his disciples to “shake the dust off your feet” from any podunk town (or Canadian discounter) who doesn’t receive you with welcome arms. The new owners don’t deserve any fair-minded person’s business.

    2. From Meadow Lake to Cold Lake AB it’s 90 minutes
      To Lloydminster AB/Sask is almost 2 hours
      To Prince Albert it’s +2 hours
      To North Battleford it’s almost 2 hours and it’s easily the “worst city in Saskatchewan for everything”, don’t leave your vehicle unattended.
      The other towns nearby may have gas stations but they’ll sell not much more than milk, bread and slurpies for the same price as the cities do at gas stations or 7/11

  11. ha ha ha !!!! shop elsewhere !!!!! and very soon now that aint gonna work either.
    ONE guess WHY, and there are more than one reason so an answer aint difficult.

    1. Well, there’s local markets, root cellars, canning, direct from farm marketers, hunting, fishing, cooking, baking. Learn a new skill?

  12. Well … as Biden reminded us … now you will need a slight Indian accent to work at No Frills.

    Why did they have to get fired!? Because of their white privilege?

    1. Speaking of Indian. I suspect a lot of employees in Meadow Lake are Metis. Is it possible the layoffs were racist?

      1. The Metis are the poster children for being booted from everywhere eventually when a new group of immigrants arrive.

  13. Tim Hortons here in Black Diamond, Alberta brought in 5 foreign workers. Some of the regular staff had their hours cut drastically, and some not getting any hours. One woman said she couldn’t make her car payment, another is looking for cleaning jobs. I doubt you will find any Tims here in Southern Alberta not staffed by foreign workers.

    1. But, but, but … we’re told they’re just … “doing the jobs Canadians just won’t do”. To paraphrase that fine American John McCain

  16. It’s economics 101
    If you can buy a franchise that requires a lot of relatively unskilled labour, you make your decisions based on:
    1) charging immigrants fees to get them into the immigration process.
    2) getting a wage subsidy from the government.
    3) paying the workers a low wage, especially considering fees that may be ongoing.
    4) government programs might be available to prop up the employees.

  18. Thanks for giving me yet another reason to leave the woke backwater province of Saskatchewan. The place is not as conservative as people might think. Even though the province voted massively for the Sask party in the last provincial election, a) The two major (woke) cities, Saskatoon and Regina, voted almost in unison for the NDP, and b) the Sask party itself is not entirely conservative, although they have more social conservative (some would call them common sense) policies than their NDP counterparts, the public sector (ie: provincial government, and almost all the agencies) will still implement DEI in their hiring practices. I know this from personal experience.

    I’ll bet people didn’t believe me when I explained how I couldn’t find work in that province. Maybe now they will.

    1. And don’t forget the social issues throughout the entire province. Tommy Douglas was not entirely wrong.

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