Company
Fortinos
Ontario grocery chain
Who owns it
- Weston Family52.6%sedar_filing · 2024-12-31
What’s documented
- 2026-03-10otherLoblaw disclosed a data breach on March 10, 2026 after identifying suspicious activity on its IT network; a criminal third party accessed customer names, phone numbers, and email addresses, prompting a forced logout of all customer accountssource →
- 2026-03-05regulatoryActionThe Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada found that Loblaw contravened PIPEDA by taking an unreasonable amount of time to process PC Optimum account deletion requests and retaining purchase transaction data after account closuresource →
- 2026-03-01otherThe r/loblawsisoutofcontrol boycott community (84,000+ members) continues its indefinite boycott of all Loblaw-owned stores, originally launched May 2024; organizers demand 15% price reduction and removal of member-only pricingsource →
- 2026-01-01regulatoryActionCanada's Grocery Sector Code of Conduct became fully implemented and enforceable on January 1, 2026, with a funded Adjudication Office operational since June 2025; the code aims to address power imbalances between major grocery chains and suppliers in Canada's concentrated grocery marketsource →
- 2025-05-05legalProceedingLoblaw and George Weston agreed to pay $500 million to settle class action lawsuits over bread price-fixing spanning 2001-2015, the largest antitrust settlement in Canadian history; claims closed December 12, 2025 with payouts expected April 2026source →
What we’ve classified so far
- political influence2
- worker exploitation2
- monopoly abuse1
7 further documented actions have not been classified yet. These counts show what we have got to, not a total.