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Ford was reacting to viral images taken inside a Pusateri's Fine Foods store, which showed containers of the wipes with a paper sign behind them stating a price of $29.99 per unit – several times higher than the regular retail price. “Vast majority of companies around this province, around this country are trying to help people out [and] people have the nerve to actually jack up their prices to $30 a container for hand wipes? It’s beyond belief.”
“We’re coming after you. We’re going to come after you hard, we’re going to protect the people of this province,” Ford said of Ontario businesses that increase much-sought after COVID-19 protective products.
Shame on PusaterisFoods I will never set foot in their store again. A mistake? Shame on them for even saying that when they knew what they were doing. Remember what they did and never shop there again.
This store in Ajax is selling wheat flour for 17.99, regular price is 12.99
Longos 2wks ago. No pricing on paper towel shelves, Only a sign saying 'sharing is caring limit 2'? 6 rolls of paper towels at the cashier priced at $16.97, penaltyfines?
Does no one realize that distributers prices go up, therefore prices go up? It's a simple supply chain problem. The grocers are not usually the problem. Especially if it's a smaller chain. The big ones can take the loss if they choose.
I'm a little suspect that the president was unaware, this is not a multi national power company it's a family business. I'm sure everyone I management knew and were just trying to profit a few extra bucks. Shoppers of this company should boycott!
Once caught, it was a simple mistake!
The funny thing is that I don't even think it's on the EPA's list of disinfectants
Was an error?!?! So owner is a scammer AND a lier. This place should be boycotted and the owner dragged out in the street an dealt with the old school Italian way.
No one should be shopping there -
They've lock their twitter account and blocked comments on their instagram so give them a call or drop them an email 416.785.9100, infopusateris.com
Supply and demand. If you want something bad enough you will pay. The government does this to us daily.
Wtf!
Why not post the name so we can all avoid this store, with us or against us
The owner is full of bull*$%!
People should stop shopping from them force them out of business
How about refucing payroll and property tax?
Can the store be charged or fined for their actions. This is illegal. I hope people boycott this place for what they are doing.
Proliferation is illegal and punishable by up to life imprisonment, hope the owner enjoys dropping the soap!
raehanbobby What a way to say the poor don't deserve to live.
I’m not bothered by the prices, I’m just astounded that anybody shops at Pusateri’s. It was so rat-infested, filthy and germ-laden, the only way to clean it was to tear it down and rebuild. I once went to the store on Bay St. It was disgusting.
raehanbobby Disgusting
raehanbobby Illegal to price gouge. IL-LE-GAL.
Lysol wipes $29.99 Pusetari's ? Wonder how much the liver pate is ? Oh yeah that's Pusetari's alright.
What is this u can order booze when Getting food and do what drink it where this is loose bs new info what the fuck is this
Spawning a host of new digs, like: “Don’t be such a Pusateri’s” PusaterisFoods pricegouging pricegougeTO
Soon to be known as Pusateri’s Law
Liberals
Discussing
Booo...they should feel a money gouge with fines!!!
They price gouged longgggg before COVID19
Excellent and yank the B—- license, Ontario deserves better!!
Ford is coming through
Store owner should be ashamed of their self !!!!! Shameful wanted to take advantage of consumers, this way !!! They should lose their business license!!!
Fines and charges are in order
Government needs to shut them down for 90 days to prevent this
That’s not a mistake. They tried to take advantage of the situation. Charge them! Sham on them, don’t shop there when this is over!
Outrageous. Bloody outrageous.
I used to shop there a long time ago. But never again.
'High end Grocery store' lol in other words a shit hole with over priced products sold to filthy rich ppl at huge markups bc their personal shoppers do the buying. Disgusting ownership in my opinion.
People of ontario...stop buying this companies products show that this is not acceptable behaviour.
Should be slamming doors closed on these crooks! All of them! Theres a few in our locale and we are a very small community
Almost all highend big box giant's 80-90% of products are at very highend of the price spectrum regularly-except their weekly sale items(that're near the avrge of non high end stores' daily prices) So it's no surprise that these Giants slide into even more gouging ranges so easy
They all are doing it!
Don’t anyone buy from this gouging company!!!
829? what? who the fuck do they think they're fooling?
And they will holding out their greedy hands for government help like every other business, crying about how they need money to stay open during these hard times🤬
Did PusaterisFoods weaver get rid of the rat🐀 problem?
Losers
You should also be checking in on convenience stores. They mark up prices so much it's disgusting. They don't even fully stock the shelves which tells me they buy from places like Costco and then resell which is illegal because Costco is not a supplier.
It’s great he called them out!
SHAME SHAME SHAME!!!
They seem to have locked their acct. Apparently this was all an accident & they said they would give customers back their $. Hope they kept their receipt.
Isn't this illegal?
Charge them!!! Ridiculous! Will NOT shop there again
omg.. a small container of Lysol wipes.. worth 2 dollars for 29 dollars.. the get rich schemes will not work now.
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Slam all you want. So what exactly have you done about it fordnation ? And you JohnTory ? cdnpoli COVID2019
Slimeballs should be shut down... Their “apology” is bullshit!... How coincidental that the “oversight” related to wipes.
Something needs to be done about CanadianTire dealers too... Store 126 in Toronto was marking up masks to $99 a box on March 8th, these normally sell for $10 a box of 50.
Declare them a non essential service!
Fine them
Shameful. Time to boycott PusaterisFoods
Go get'em tiger!!!!
Take a few and walk the fk OUT SIMPLE
A boycott is expected.
That needs to stop. There's plenty of Asian stores in the GTA taking advantage of this pandemic by charging outrageous prices. Ford needs to fine them appropriately.
Close them down ffs
Use this and save trees 🌲.
Fine their a__es off,& pull their business license if they keep it up!
Rich people won't know the difference anyways.
WOW...just terrible. So greedy🤬🤬🤬
Fine them. Close them down
Disgusting- no excuse except greed
It was a mistake they say.... No.... It wasn't . Lol
How incredibly shameful. Oh It was just a mistake they say. How the hell is that kind of mistake even made.
Theres always a profiteer
This greedy store should be boycotted & fined. But then where would the 1% shop, right?
Well Done. We need similar or stronger action in Quebec also.
Price gouging, yes. But it does give people some indication as to where there is a good chance to see an asshole in its natural habitat....
Shut them down
Not a high-end store ! They're always entry level
Order retail stores to impose strict volume buying limits before they are allowed to raise prices - and then force them to prove they did so.
Should pass a law any store start price hike will be closed down till father notice.
Not a mistake. Many stores give managers too much individual control over pricing, and they are measured exclusively on sales volume and profits - not public image and decency. Stop claiming it was a mistake. It's built into your business model.
Plus tax. 😮
Shut down the province fordnation , and that’s what you get. Inflation. The supply chains are down thanks to ON and QC. What did you expect? You created scarcity, that raises prices. The great communist method of control. AndrewScheer jkenney PierrePoilievre
Hijo de pusateri!
Assholes
They were called out, if not the price would still be 30.00. They deserve the fines
Do all of their other products come with an 8.5x11 page description too?
Manitoba too price going up
WTF
“Mistake” on a hot commodity
Hmm... I wonder how fordnation feels about AirCanada AirCanadaRouge price gouging Canadians trying to get home to Ontario from Peru? They are having to pay double the airfare to fly one-way that they paid for a return flight, under emergency circumstances.
thatCandyChan PusaterisFoods is a name to remember when things get back to normal..... And things WILL get back to normal.
Well there should be some board in this country that would just shut them down and lock the doors and put them out of business
“F**k! We got caught, backpedal, quick!! D-Bags.
Liars, they knew exactly what they were doing and got called on it
CabinE207 here!
This is Pusateri's - already overpriced in general - shame on them!
Charge em!!!!
There were many stores doing this...
boycottPusateris
New from Pusateri: 'We will adjust the pricing of this item from exclusive access for the 1% to our normal access for the 10%'.
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