Regarding the mislabeled origin of the produce - I am shocked that it persists even after you complained! I admire your efforts to correct the situation.

I counted the total number of produce varieties (not counting obviously tropical fruits), and of those, only 14.6% were from Ontario. Mind you, this was in December, but even for items like apples, onions and potatoes, less than a fifth were local. By comparison I did the same thing at a small local independent grocery store (La Rose), and they had 35% local produce - including more than half their apples.

Most disturbingly, of all the Loblaw’s produce labelled “Product of Canada” or “Product of Ontario” on the signs, I checked the stickers where they had them and discovered that a whopping 40% were actually imported from the U.S., Mexico, etc. My husband and I have complained to the produce manager about this more than once, and we’ve gotten excuses ranging from “we’re understaffed and can’t keep up” to “the signs are expensive to replace”.

I’m going to check again this summer, but I simply don’t believe that Loblaw’s gets 25% of it’s total produce from Canadian growers, even if they’re counting B.C. apples shipped to Ontario.