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Corey Nilsson has been a clerk at a No Frills grocery store in Oshawa, Ont., for almost 19 years, now making $18.35 an hour in the bakery department. But he has spent his working hours during the past year driving to different stores as a union representative to talk with other clerks about how they’re getting through COVID-19.
“I get calls numerous times a week about the pandemic pay,” he said.
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Loblaw Cos. Ltd., the biggest supermarket chain in Canada, exceeded expectations in its first quarter, managing year-over-year sales and profit gains despite a difficult match-up against the great wave of panic buying at the outset of the pandemic in March 2020.
Sales at Loblaw a cross-country network of 2,400 grocery stores and pharmacies that includes Shoppers Drug Mart and No Frills rose to $11.9 billion in the quarter, a year-over-year 0.6 per cent increase, the company said in an earnings update on Wednesday. The company booked net earnings of $392 million, more than 30 per cent higher than the previous year.
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