How to get slice of bread class-action settlement before December deadline – Toronto Sun
Consumers have until Dec. 12, 2025 to possibly get up to $50 or more
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The time is now to claim your share of a $500-million class-action settlement related to the alleged industry-wide price fixing of bread.
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Consumers have until Dec. 12, 2025, to possibly get up to $50 or more as part of the Canadian Packaged Bread Class Actions Settlement.
Anyone who purchased packaged bread or baked goods between 2001 and 2021 can submit an online claim at CanadianBreadSettlement.ca.
It is open to all Canadian citizens aged 18 and over, and no purchase receipts are needed for submission.
Claims will be processed between six and 12 months after the submission deadline.
Last May, Ontario Superior Court Judge Ed Morgan approved the $500-million case settlement, which included a combined $404 million to be paid by Loblaw and George Weston, who were accused of engaging in an industry-wide scheme of price fixing of bread products.
The remainder of the $96 million from the settlement was given out via a Loblaw gift card program between 2018-19 in an effort to please customers who had paid $1.50 more per loaf of bread.
The settlement agreement was also approved by the Superior Court of Quebec in July.
After the legal fees and court expenses are paid, 78% of the funds are to be allocated to shoppers in Ontario, with the remaining amount to be paid to Quebec consumers.
This $500-million settlement was just the first chapter of a larger saga that also lobbed allegations at other large grocers, including Metro, Sobeys, Walmart Canada, Canada Bread and Giant Tiger.
Class actions continue against those companies.
While those companies have denied their participation in an alleged scheme to coordinate the price of bread back to 2001, Loblaw and George Weston told the Competition Bureau they were part of the practice in 2015.
Their admission wasn’t publicized until 2017.
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Consumers have until Dec. 12, 2025, to possibly get up to $50 or more as part of the Canadian Packaged Bread Class Actions Settlement.
Anyone who purchased packaged bread or baked goods between 2001 and 2021 can submit an online claim at CanadianBreadSettlement.ca.
It is open to all Canadian citizens aged 18 and over, and no purchase receipts are needed for submission.
Claims will be processed between six and 12 months after the submission deadline.
Last May, Ontario Superior Court Judge Ed Morgan approved the $500-million case settlement, which included a combined $404 million to be paid by Loblaw and George Weston, who were accused of engaging in an industry-wide scheme of price fixing of bread products.
The remainder of the $96 million from the settlement was given out via a Loblaw gift card program between 2018-19 in an effort to please customers who had paid $1.50 more per loaf of bread.
The settlement agreement was also approved by the Superior Court of Quebec in July.
After the legal fees and court expenses are paid, 78% of the funds are to be allocated to shoppers in Ontario, with the remaining amount to be paid to Quebec consumers.
Other grocers face suits
This $500-million settlement was just the first chapter of a larger saga that also lobbed allegations at other large grocers, including Metro, Sobeys, Walmart Canada, Canada Bread and Giant Tiger.
Class actions continue against those companies.
While those companies have denied their participation in an alleged scheme to coordinate the price of bread back to 2001, Loblaw and George Weston told the Competition Bureau they were part of the practice in 2015.
Their admission wasn’t publicized until 2017.
After the legal fees and court expenses are paid, 78% of the funds are to be allocated to shoppers in Ontario, with the remaining amount to be paid to Quebec consumers.
This $500-million settlement was just the first chapter of a larger saga that also lobbed allegations at other large grocers, including Metro, Sobeys, Walmart Canada, Canada Bread and Giant Tiger.
Class actions continue against those companies.
While those companies have denied their participation in an alleged scheme to coordinate the price of bread back to 2001, Loblaw and George Weston told the Competition Bureau they were part of the practice in 2015.
Their admission wasn’t publicized until 2017.
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