Loblaw Issues Apology Following Reports Underweight Meat Sold in Stores

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Grocery giant Loblaws has issued an apology after reports some of its stores were selling underweight meat, a year after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) first dealt with the matter.

The selling of underweight meat was first reported in 2023 by Winnipeg Lake resident Iris Griffin, who noticed a difference between the store package weight and how much meat she received. That led to a complaint to the CFIA.

Now a CBC investigation has found that Loblaws, Sobeys, and Walmart stores are still including the weight of packaging in the price of the meat, overcharging customers by between 4 and 11 percent.

Griffin told The Epoch Times that she was portioning the meat when she first found the discrepancy.

”I took the weight on the label, and I divided it by four. And I was like, ‘Okay, this is my target for each of these portions’. And then I got to the last portion, I thought, I’m 134 grams short.”

When she weighed the plastic packaging, it weighed 134 grams.

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