Farm Boy

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Farm Boy.

Selected.

Zehrs.

Longos.

Shoppers Drug Mart.

Farm Boy.

Highly recommend if you're in Ottawa to check them out.

I know every now and then they do surface at Farm Boy.

They're there, and I know they're in some golf clubs around the city.

Once or twice a year they'll have a half-price sale on the egg rolls, and the lineup

We have the Loblaws at Carlingwood.

We have, um, the Metro.

We've got the farm boy.

We have Britannia beach.

They got an agreement out of, uh, Sobeys, or Empire, I should say.

Empire is the company that owns Sobeys and Farm Boy and IGA and a million other grocery chains.

So Empire is not going to be using these, uh, restrictive real estate contracts anymore, which, you know, we've covered.

That's, in a nutshell, that's where the grocery chains sign these real estate contracts that say, "There can't be a grocery store anywhere within, like, 20 miles to 20 kilometers of, of one of our stores," and so on.

They got an agreement out of, um, uh, Sobeys or Empire, I should say.

Empire is the company that owns Sobeys and Farm Boy and IGA and a million other [clears throat] grocery chains.

Uh, so Empire is not going to be using these, uh, restrictive real estate contracts anymore, which, you know, we've covered.

That's, in a nutshell, that's where the grocery chains sign these real estate contracts that say, "There can't be a grocery store anywhere within, like, 20 miles to 20 kilometers of, of one of our stores," and so on.

I don't dream about it.

Empire, which is the grocery chain that owns Sobeys, Farm Boy, and several other supermarkets, will end property controls in its leases.

They get the first major Canadian grocer to reach a legally binding deal with Canada's Competition Bureau to do so.

And here's what economist Jim Stanford told CBC about it.

What does that mean?

Well, this was the operator Sobeys and Farm Boy and other chains.

They said we did nothing wrong, but we'll never do it again.

A restrictive clause is if you want the grocery stores and anchor in your shopping mall, you, commercial landlord, are not going to rent any more space to another grocer.