Any eligible Canadian resident who purchased packaged bread for their personal use — including bagged bread, buns, rolls, bagels, naan, English muffins, wraps, pita and tortillas — between 2001 and 2021 can claim compensation from the national settlement reached with Loblaw Companies Limited, and parent company George Weston Ltd.
Forms can be found online at CanadianBreadSettlement.ca for those living anywhere in Canada outside of Quebec as of Dec. 31, 2021, and at QuebecBreadSettlement.ca for those living within that province on that date. Claims have to be submitted by Dec. 12, 2025, both websites note.
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While the price-fixing allegations targeted other major grocers, including Sobeys, Walmart, Giant Tiger and Metro, only Loblaw and its parent company have agreed to a settlement. The others have denied the allegations.
As someone from a different continent, I feel there’s a story here that we’re missing out on.
EDIT: Oh, price fixing. I didn’t expect that.
Canada is run by oligopolies and all the major grocery stores colluded for years.
Edit: I’m sure they still do, but they’ll be more careful with bread.
The baby meat content of their bread was higher than the national average
Loblaws is notorious for this…
They have those e-ink pricing labels now. They can’t legally do surge pricing (yet), buy what they have been testing on some products is setting the price high, and then daily its a different sales price.
When I go for the same soymilk product I never know if it’s going to be $8.50 or $3.50, or anywhere in between. Regular price is set at $9ish.
I just leave if its high and go to Walmart nextdoor, where its $5 every day
As soon as I saw them switching to the digital labels I was like - yup here we go. Do you know they’re legally blocked to change prices throughout the day? It would be difficult to achieve since the label has to match what the cash register shows. That would be easy to handle if they are sure all customers have exited the store prior to changing the prices.