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Ride Sharing Cost During Transit Strikes

It was official today as transit workers went om strike which meant bus and SeaBus services were unavailable causing a lot of people scrambling to find ways to get to work. For some, the options were to simply take a taxi or use rideshare services such as Uber to the point where it’s better to

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Potential Transit Strike And Public Reliance

For as long as I have known people are usually encouraged to take public transit as an environmentally friendly option to reduce cars on the road while it’s also touted as a way to help people save a lot of money. Recently it was announced by a workers union that they may go on strike

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Financial Management

Trying One New Clearance Item Habit

With that news of Loblaw stores maintaining its 50% off clearance discounts on expiring food items I was curious to see if I could find anything. While browsing I saw these bags of granola cereal mix for $2.94 where it was more than 50% off. The product still had a good shelf life for a

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Business

Loblaws Quickly Versus Discount Policy

Well that was fast as it was only a few days since the company Loblaws announced that they would stop offering near expiration food items at a 50% discount. With all the bad publicity it sounds like they officially announced that they will indeed continue to offer these discounts versus just say throwing away the

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Business

Loblaws Dropping 50% Discount On Expiring Food Fiasco

There was a lot of conversation on how the largest grocery company here in Canada is going to implement a policy not to sell items that are near to expiration at a discounted rate. Instead, I suppose they will dispose of it as a loss if it goes unsold. As expected, people began to scold

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Financial Management

Buy First Think Later Moments Low Price

This was an interesting catching today as usually these small cans of sardines can go for almost $2 a can in a lot of stores. When I first saw the price online I thought it was virtually the same thing. However, if you look at the description it’s actually $1.97 for 18 of them. It

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