[6] In addition to bread, other baked goods such as bagels, naans, English muffins, and tortillas were also affected by the price-fixing scheme.
Afterwards, a Canada Bread employee approached a Weston Foods staff and expressed displeasure over the failed price hike.
[8] The bureau was approached by informants from Loblaws in 2015 and filed the affidavit late in 2017 along with evidence in order to convince a judge to grant it search warrants, which it executed on 31 October 2017.
There was always a negotiation process going back and forth between the four retailers where the supplier was trying to coordinate it, because somebody had to be the first to move.An academic from Dalhousie University who was a professor of "food distribution and policy" said that he had previously been unaware of this issue, and "Now, I'm asking myself where else in the grocery store is there collusion other than bread.
"[6] In an analysis performed by Grier and published by Markusoff, the cost differential between actual and normative CPI data, of a weekly loaf purchase over the decade-and-a-half interval, was on the order of 400 dollars.
[9] Markusoff notes that "According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, American consumers saw bread prices rise half as fast as happened in Canada during the time of Loblaws' misconduct.
[12] Derek Nepinak was the lead plaintiff in a $1 billion class-action lawsuit on behalf of all Canadians who purchased bread from the named grocers since January 2001.