{"id":500,"date":"2024-05-13T20:35:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T20:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:35:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T20:35:06","slug":"loblaw-has-become-an-everything-company-david-moscrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/13\/loblaw-has-become-an-everything-company-david-moscrop\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLoblaw Has Become an Everything Company\u201d &#8211; David Moscrop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThese days, corporate empires have rebranded as \u201ceverything companies,\u201d and everything companies tend to proselytize about the efficiencies they achieve. By operating pharmacies, health clinics, and financial services, among many other businesses, a retailer can better accommodate consumers as a one-stop shop. There\u2019s an intuitive logic here. The more Loblaw can harmonize and cross-subsidize across its various business lines, the better it can serve you, right? Loblaw\u2019s ecosystem does indeed aim at harmony, but its interest is in harmonizing market control, which comes at a cost for consumers, who have little choice but to operate within its boundaries, watch their data be harvested and leveraged, and pay more for less. Any economist will tell you that a lack of competition makes it easier for companies to raise prices\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/loblaw-has-become-an-everything-company\/\">https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/loblaw-has-become-an-everything-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese days, corporate empires have rebranded as \u201ceverything companies,\u201d and everything companies tend to proselytize about the efficiencies they achieve. By operating pharmacies, health clinics, and financial services, among many other businesses, a retailer can better accommodate consumers as a one-stop shop. There\u2019s an intuitive logic here. The more Loblaw can harmonize and cross-subsidize across&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}