Stop Starving Us for Profit: End Shrinkflation and Corporate Price Gouging in Canada 🇨🇦
The Issue
How much longer are everyday families supposed to struggle just to put basic food on the table? While the 1% get richer.
Right now, across Canada, millions of people are living paycheck to paycheck, cutting back on essentials, and standing in record-breaking food bank lines. Grocery shelves are thinning out, and shelves at local pantries are running entirely empty.
Meanwhile, multi-billion dollar grocery monopolies and food conglomerates are pulling in record breaking profits.
We are being squeezed from both sides by a relentless, greedy cycle of inflation and shrinkflation. It isn't just that prices are skyrocketing; corporations are secretly shrinking the packages, changing ingredients to cheaper alternatives, and charging us the for less product. They are quite literally stealing from our grocery carts while funding executive bonuses, mansions, and luxury vacations.
A generalized grievance doesn't move a company, but an organized, united front will. Food is not a luxury; it is a basic human right. We are drawing a line in the sand today. We demand that governments and corporations stop treating our survival like a profit margin.
OUR DEMANDS:
1. Mandatory "Shrinkflation" Labeling: We demand that the Competition Bureau Canada pass immediate regulations requiring grocery stores and brands to clearly label any product that has decreased in size or volume within the last year, ensuring full price transparency.
2. Investigation into Price-Gouging better known as "Greedflation" Federal governments must launch immediate, aggressive antitrust investigations into the massive grocery chains that control the vast majority of our market share. We demand strict price gouging penalties for corporations artificially inflating the costs of staple goods like milk, eggs, meat, rice, and bread.
3. Proportional Pricing: If a corporation chooses to shrink a product's size, they must proportionally drop the price. No more charging 100% of the price for 80% of the food.
WHY THOS MATTERS:
Every single day, regular working people are forced to make impossible choices between buying groceries, paying rent, or heating their homes. We know we are being cheated. They count on us venting, getting tired, and simply moving on to the next complaint.
It is time to stop just talking about it. By standing together and pooling our voices, we can hit them where it hurts their bottom line and their public reputation.
Sign this petition to demand immediate change, fair pricing, and accountability from the corporations feeding off our struggle. Share it with your friends, your family, and your community. Enough is enough!
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The Issue
How much longer are everyday families supposed to struggle just to put basic food on the table? While the 1% get richer.
Right now, across Canada, millions of people are living paycheck to paycheck, cutting back on essentials, and standing in record-breaking food bank lines. Grocery shelves are thinning out, and shelves at local pantries are running entirely empty.
Meanwhile, multi-billion dollar grocery monopolies and food conglomerates are pulling in record breaking profits.
We are being squeezed from both sides by a relentless, greedy cycle of inflation and shrinkflation. It isn't just that prices are skyrocketing; corporations are secretly shrinking the packages, changing ingredients to cheaper alternatives, and charging us the for less product. They are quite literally stealing from our grocery carts while funding executive bonuses, mansions, and luxury vacations.
A generalized grievance doesn't move a company, but an organized, united front will. Food is not a luxury; it is a basic human right. We are drawing a line in the sand today. We demand that governments and corporations stop treating our survival like a profit margin.
OUR DEMANDS:
1. Mandatory "Shrinkflation" Labeling: We demand that the Competition Bureau Canada pass immediate regulations requiring grocery stores and brands to clearly label any product that has decreased in size or volume within the last year, ensuring full price transparency.
2. Investigation into Price-Gouging better known as "Greedflation" Federal governments must launch immediate, aggressive antitrust investigations into the massive grocery chains that control the vast majority of our market share. We demand strict price gouging penalties for corporations artificially inflating the costs of staple goods like milk, eggs, meat, rice, and bread.
3. Proportional Pricing: If a corporation chooses to shrink a product's size, they must proportionally drop the price. No more charging 100% of the price for 80% of the food.
WHY THOS MATTERS:
Every single day, regular working people are forced to make impossible choices between buying groceries, paying rent, or heating their homes. We know we are being cheated. They count on us venting, getting tired, and simply moving on to the next complaint.
It is time to stop just talking about it. By standing together and pooling our voices, we can hit them where it hurts their bottom line and their public reputation.
Sign this petition to demand immediate change, fair pricing, and accountability from the corporations feeding off our struggle. Share it with your friends, your family, and your community. Enough is enough!
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Petition created on June 23, 2026