Posted on 08/16/2024 6:52:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
What a pant load. My wife works for national agricultural operation that sells fertilizer and other chemicals. The prices have skyrocketed to point that several large family farming operations have gone out of business or reduced their acreage to barely sustainable limits.
The company also reduced their margins to bare minimums, but they have been forced to close their local operational stores while maintain regional centers which increases logistical costs to transport the product to the farm. Now, any uptick in the supply chain can throw all of that out of balance.
Look up “Nixon” and “Price Controls” …..didn’t work then.
When did the President become KING (or Queen)?
Grocery store margins are at best 2%, so how will they lower prices? Classic Marxist theory that does not work and never will. Massive shortages will occur , want fresh produce, it will not be there, want to pay $100 for a steak, you got it. $25 a Gallon for milk , it’s coming.
The only thing we will be able to afford is possible Ramen Noodles.
Wait until those EBT cards can only buy one day’s worth of food.
Despite what Democrats say, grocery margins are not high. If their prices go up, chance are they are paying more for them.
Every argument against price gouging applies to taxes because taxes are the ultimate form of price gouging.
Cheap and abundant fuel allow for cheaper production of food.
Moving that food from the fields to processing plants requires cheap and abundant fuel
Manufacturing and processing requires cheap and abundant fuel
Moving products from processing and manufacturing to warehouses requires cheap and abundant fuel
Moving product from warehouse to market requires cheap and abundant fuel
Beginning to see a pattern here?
https://www.history.com/speeches/ford-pledges-to-whip-inflation-now
one way to solve the obesity epidemic I guess- restrict food like Venezuela and North Korea
And a denarius for a quart of wheat or three quarts of barley.
The only grocery price gouging I’ve ever seen is when that store was 100 miles from civilization, and open when all others are closed. To me, that’s not price gouging. That’s paying a convenience fee.
WHO burned down the building with OVER 1 MILLION chickens ???
SHE TOTALLY FAILED AS BORDER CZAR
SHE WILL ALSO FAIL AS FOOD CZAR
THAT is why GOd made freezers.
Whole Milk—gallon—at Wal Mart used to be $2.83.... all day long.
Paid $4.04 10 days ago.
Pretty much their solution to everything.
2 years ago Ice Berg Lettuce $0.99 a head, now $1.99. Can’t even make a cheap salad now.
I wonder why they weren’t price gouging when Trump was in office? So strange.
Why aren’t the Republicans pushing Biden out of office? Clearly he is demented, MAKE KAMALA OWN IT, replace her as VP by placing a Republican as VEEP.
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