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It's not the grocery stores creating this environment, it's their suppliers that have been consolidating non stop for 10 years.

This is the real story:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/...

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TBF in Canada grocery stores are also suppliers; about a quarter of sales are of private label items.

Both private-label and name-brand items are produced by 3rd-party suppliers.

Not necessarily, e.g. at various points George Weston Limited has owned commercial dairies and bakeries. They've also bought out suppliers of their private-label items after the suppliers went bankrupt due to insufficient margins.

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