Company

Loblaw Companies

Type: public
Ticker: L · TSX
Market value: $45B

Loblaw Companies is public, listed as L on TSX, in Food and grocery.

What it sells: supermarkets, Shoppers Drug Mart, PC Financial.

In the language of this map it serves 2 solutions — Warehouse and bulk retail and Pill dispensers and pharmacy delivery — which between them relieve 3 human frictions.

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Sells

Warehouse and bulk retailParenthood
Pill dispensers and pharmacy deliveryDecline

Human frictions it ultimately relieves

Reached through the solutions above, never directly.

A child costs a house over eighteen yearsParenthood
Feed four or five people on a budget, every dayParenthood
A dozen medications, each with its own scheduleDecline

Trends favouring it

Food as medicine and personalised nutritionReal but not yet at scale. The effects described are expected rather than observed.