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UPDATE: Maclean's broke my post by fixing theirs. Bread continues unabated. by Free Gift Card Patrol Team 03/05/2019, 11:02pm PST
Maclean's Magazine wrote:

This article has been republished to correct a mistake in the original headline that said the best way to punish Loblaw Cos. is to buy products that produce high profit margins. Don’t do that.

While the mistake in the original headline was pretty bad ("Watching you scoop up high-margin products will be tough for the grocery giant to swallow. Steak and Perrier, anyone?"), I feel like they're underselling the number of mistakes they had to correct in the original body (thanks, Internet Archive).

Start from the margins

Inside a Loblaw store, products along the periphery usually have the highest gross margins, and therefore produce the most profit. If you’re shopping with the store’s own money, those are the ones you want to buy.

What to purchase

It varies by retailer, but the high-margin products are generally understood to include produce, meat, baked goods and the pre-made meals most stores now showcase as soon as shoppers walk in—the stuff that grabs your attention.

Think like a grocer

Stores also make margin on bottled water, greeting cards, cereal and, in general, products that are strategically shelved at eye level.
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