Robins des Ruelles strike again
The Robins des Ruelles carried out another action Thursday evening in Rosemont, hitting a Maxi at a location unidentified by the journalist and taking an indefinite quantity of groceries. Item also mentions a similar action in Quebec City but is even vaguer about where that happened.
Joey 12:20 on 2026-05-01 Permalink
I’ve been wording about this since the last time – who exactly eats the loss in this kind of thing. Some rudimentary googling suggests that Quebec’s Maxi stores are corporate-owned, meaning that Loblaw would take the hit. The other banners are more likely to have a franchise model, meaning the franchisee (more of your local businessperson than faceless corporation – hence the fact that often the stores are formally called something like IGA Stephane Tremblay) is on the hook. Five thousand bucks is a lot of money but not enough to warrant an insurance claim, it seems.
TLDR these folks seem to have, at least in this case, targeted the right banner stores to ensure that the Loblaw corp takes the financial blow.
Chris 12:44 on 2026-05-01 Permalink
Loblaw takes no blow, they just calculate it as cost of business and increase prices correspondingly.
Annette 02:13 on 2026-05-02 Permalink
Chris: Loblaw’s increases prices corresponding to its wants, not its needs.
Meezly 10:59 on 2026-05-02 Permalink
And its wants are likely dictated by its board of directors chaired by chaired by lord Galen Weston.
Chris 17:20 on 2026-05-02 Permalink
Annette, that’s true, and is compatible with my point. Its wants are for revenue to exceed expenses. If hooligans increase its expenses, they’ll increase their prices to get the profit they want.