“It almost gets to the greedflation issue, where some companies are taking advantage of a situation where consumers have come to expect higher prices on everything because of inflation,” said Dworsky.
It’s called capitalism. Everyone does it. Go to New Orleans this week, Mardi Gras. Hotels way over priced, drink prices are up. Last weekends Superbowl, everything is overpriced. As long as people are willing to pay, that’s what you get.
Have you seen the price of flowers? I was just in Kroger. Those multi flower bunches that usually go for about $7 are now $22. The roses run from $50 to $80, and that is just at Krogers. Don’t know what the price is at a florist.
No doubt there is an element of greed involved, but the prices charged are what ostensibly the market will bear. People do not have to buy candy. And, as I posted yesterday:
“...the price of cocoa has doubled this past year. Cocoa now sells on the commodity market for $5,599 per metric ton (as of today) passing the previous recorded high in 1977 of $5,379 per ton. So yeah, the price of chocolate bars have increased in part because of raw product costs.”
same with flowers: bouquets are halved in size plus doubled in price a week before valentines a few days afterwards ... so, i buy valentine flowers before and after the big event at regular prices ... my sweetie understands AND approves!
I have picked up Valentines day candy in April at very good prices. Timing is everything in a market.
It’s not expensive at CVS...the day after Valentine’s Day.
B-I-D-E-N Everything that is bad and evil emanates from the day and time Brandon Biden was sworn in as the illegally elected phony president. This plague was shaking with excitement as he spent his few waking hours, under the watchful eye of Rice, destroying anything that was good about what DJT had accomplished and adding more of his own. Electric cars, appliances, education, nothing was left untouched and they're just beginning. Much can be accomplished in the remaining time Susan and Joe have left.
A female acquaintance was complainingg that razors marketed to women cost more than the same razor sold to men.
I said “So, just buy the men’s razors”
If looks could kill, I would be dead.🤣.
You could just do what we do. I look at my wife and say “Happy Commercial Holiday.” We laugh and go about our day.
The candy is only part of the product.
My wife was hinting about what she wanted for Valentine’s Day. She said, ‘I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds.’ I bought her a scale.
And that’s when the fight started....
It's like buying water in the desert.