GUILTY of racketeering, fraud, insider trading, influence peddling, tax fraud, false income tax filings, insurance fraud, and more.

Partners are Partners and are equally guilty of all crimes.

The pretence of Home Hardware is that its stores are privately owned.
However:
Home Hardware Store Owners collectively own Home Hardware Alliance International LTD & LLC.

They are guilty partners in crime.

Guesstimates of false income reporting exceed 100 billion taxable dollars.

Stores use, "Kick Out" slush sku's. Sku's that appear to ring up and are taxed sales, however that is when the "Kick Out's" occur.

The racketeering crimes of Home Hardware Alliance International LTD & LLC, and their partners include but are not limited to:

Canadian Tire
Recochem
and too many to mention.

Product often is written off by Canadian Tire, but is received by Home Hardware Alliance International LTD & LLC.
Identifying packaging that shows Canadian Tire is removed and a price gun is used to affix a Slush SKU.

It is only a fragment of the many corrupt systems used by those named Partners.

By monopolizing and manipulating the control of all hardware and renovation materials by these partners, that drove housing prices worldwide to be unaffordable.

This caused collapse of any vendor/supplier that they could profiteer from.  These include but are not limited to:

Grant Lumber Products,
A bankruptcy that created the world famous, Abandoned Grant Mansion.

These bastards of insatiable greed, collectively stole 300 million dollars from my company alone.

By the examples provided above, it is indisputable that there combined crimes have cost us all hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide.