Majority of Canadians support forcing Walmart, Costco to close non-essential sections

According to the latest weekly survey by Leger Marketing released today, December 15, 57% of Canadians support forcing superstores/Big Box retailers, such as Costco and Walmart, to close the non-essential sections of their stores (except for essential items such as food or pharmacy) to in-person shopping in fairness to smaller businesses that have had to shut down their operations due to the pandemic. 32% of Canadians would oppose this measure. This comes as a number of regions across the country are in lockdown — four in Ontario alone — and new restrictions on non-essential businesses are expected to be announced for Quebec today.

Conversely, a much lower percentage of Americans would support forcing large retailers to close their non-essential sections in fairness to small businesses, at 32%.

Majority of Canadians support forcing large retailers like Walmart and Costco to close non-essential sections out of fairness to small businesses that have had to shut down their operations

These results are from a web survey conducted by Leger Marketing from December 11 to 13, 2020, with 1,528 Canadians and 1,001 Americans, 18 years of age or older, randomly recruited from LEO’s online panel. For the full list of results and methodology, please click here.

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