Canada, past its BEST BEFORE date - This is DISGRACEFUL... this is CANADA
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Summary
A new kind of grocery store in Quebec is promising big savings at a time when food prices keep rising. The low-cost chain sells discounted items sometimes past their best before date. As the CBC's Gabriel Guindy found out, shoppers say the deals are hard to beat.
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Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 338 a.m., Friday, November the 14th. I hope
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you're having a great start to your day. I certainly am. Looking forward to the weekend
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as well. I've got my big blue mug of coffee with me as usual. I hope you got a hot mug
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for yourself this morning. And this story is disgraceful. This story is disgusting,
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and this story is absolutely jaw-dropping. It really is. If you have somebody overseas and
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they're concerned about what's going on here in this country, they may ask you the question,
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how bad have things gotten in Canada? If you're somebody who has been responsible for how bad
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things have gotten in Canada, if you voted for how bad things have gotten in Canada,
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if you still defend how bad things have gotten in Canada, you need to watch the next video.
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Because this is how bad things have gotten in Canada.
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A new kind of grocery store in Quebec is promising big savings at a time when food prices keep rising.
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The low-cost chain sells discounted items sometimes past their best before date. As the CBC's
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Gabriel Guindy found out, shoppers say the deals are hard to beat.
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I'm at a type of grocery store that's gaining a lot of momentum. It sells discounted items and
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people shopping here say they're saving a lot of money. I spent 52 days and if I would have
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it, buy it everywhere else, probably $150. The food is sourced through distributors and
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manufacturers. So products that are mislabeled or can't be sold in regular grocery stores end up here,
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like this beef that was supposed to go to a restaurant. It's sold at a discount, making
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prices more affordable. Another reason for why prices are so cheap is because they sell items
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that are near or past their best before date. Best before is almost more of a recommendation
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about marketing, whereas expiry for something like a meat product is, you know, about the safety
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of consuming that food. Experts say the stigma around low-cost stores like this one seems to
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be shifting. Years ago, there was a bit of a negative stigma in being a bargain hunter, you know,
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but nowadays, lots of people shop at these retail locations. Just five years, five years ago,
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people are looking, no, I'm not touching the box because it's expired. Now, because of the economy,
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people are, oh, you know what, it's 88 cents. I'm going to try it. As for Liquidation Marie,
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business is booming. In 13 years, they have eight locations and plan to expand to 10 locations within
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the next year. As a company grows, there's usually added costs, cost of distribution, transport, HR,
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you name it, and those costs tend to be passed on to consumers. But while expansion comes with its own
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set of challenges, this type of store and the products they sell at a cheaper price are clearly
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in demand. Gabriel Gindi, CBC News, Longay. Is this how far things have fallen in Canada?
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And you know what's interesting here? Did you catch what's missing in that story?
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Because there's something very important missing. Keep in mind, this is the CBC,
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the national news broadcaster. Mark Carney just gave this entity another $150 million of your money.
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He's going to entrench the CBC in law and make it so that it can never be defunded. He promised that.
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What's missing in the story? What's missing in the story is somebody at the end saying, you know,
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this might not be a very good idea. It's not very healthy to eat meat past its best before date or
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sour cream. Somebody could get really sick. We could have an outbreak of salmonella poisoning here.
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And I'm wondering how long these grocery stores will be in business when 10, 15, 20, 30 people end
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up getting sick and sue the pants off them. I'm wondering this is even legal. Because if you're
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a restaurant, you can't sell food past its best before date or a grocery store. How can this happen
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in this country? Because this is what's known as normalizing. This is becoming normal now.
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This is managing the decline. And the CBC is part of that now. Because Mark Carney gave them $150
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million of your money. And he's keeping them in business. Now, when I officially saw, initially saw
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this story, I was shocked, as you probably are. I mean, Polly have talks about food lines, people
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standing in line to get food. I mean, rate them the way you want. But I think this is even worse than that.
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Because people can't afford food in this country because the cost of living is so bad.
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Now, initially, I was shocked at this. But then I started thinking, you have to laugh. And I started
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thinking, boy, you know, maybe the government of Canada, Health Canada can come out with an official
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list of dumpster diving days so people can get free food out of dumpsters. And here's a list of it here.
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I'll scroll it up so you can see. They actually have Saturday and Sunday on here. You don't take a break
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from dumpster diving on the weekend. But I particularly like this one right here. Thursday,
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butcher's surprise, expired meat day. Think of it as Russian roulette charcuterie. Sausages with
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mystery flavors, steaks that move only in your imagination, and ground beef that's already halfway
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to becoming jerky. But this is how bad things have gotten in the country that you live in.
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Shame on you if you continue to vote for this. I appreciate you being here today. Probably another
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video coming later today. I never expected to be talking about this today. I never in my wildest
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dreams imagined that this could happen in the country where I was born.