Errol Schweitzer
Grocery industry analyst and long-time industry participant who writes the Checkout Grocery Update newsletter and co-authored a paper on how public grocery stores could work in Canada, offering expertise on commissary-style models and industry scale dynamics.
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Apr 7, 2026 • 20min
Can public grocery stores work in Canada?
Mike von Masso, a food economist at the University of Guelph who studies food systems and pricing, and Errol Schweitzer, a grocery analyst who advocates commissary-style public stores, debate public grocery stores in Canada. They discuss commissary models, startup and operating costs, scale and purchasing power, subsidy mechanisms to lower prices, and political tradeoffs around public investments.
