In 2010, Canada Post introduced a tool called the Canada Post Comparison Shopper, which let you compare prices and shipping costs from a huge range of different online retailers.
Here is a news release from when the Canada Post Comparison Shopper was first launched, and here is my blog post from when I discovered it.
This tool helped me discover all kinds of new stores I never would have come across on my own and get amazing deals that I never thought possible. I mourned the day it was discontinued - I've never found a replacement that's anywhere near comparable!
As Canadians work together to disentangle ourselves from the United States of America, the time has come to bring back the Canada Post Comparison Shopper.
It could be a quick, easy way to search Canadian retailers for the specific product you're only been able to find on Amazon, or for a Canadian alternative or non-US alternative to the American product you've been using for ages.
They could provide options to filter for Canadian-made products, or filter out US-made products, or filter out foreign-owned retailers.
Currently, the comparison shopping tools available to us are controlled by American oligarchs and run on algorithms designed to enrich them.
The Canada Post Comparison Shopper was a public good designed to benefit Canadians and Canada. In this, our moment of need, it's time to resurrect it.
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