Harris Plans to Ban Grocery ‘Price Gouging.’ What Does the Evidence Say?

The New York Times ^ | Aug. 15, 2024Updated Aug. 16, 2024, 6:57 a.m. ET | Jim Tankersley and Jeanna Smialek

[chuckee]

The supermarket industry is very competitive with low profit margins per item. They all sell the same products. Simple fact of the matter is there is NO price gouging in the industry because if there was that supermarket franchise would be out of business. This is all on Biden and Harris. No amount of Times misdirection is going to get them off the hook

[cld51860]

Heels Up’s own father wrote extensively about the glories of central planning, and how every country should be doing it.

The apple does not fall far…

[Cobra64]

These clowns should understand there is no such thing in a free market.

[oldtech]

I remember the Carter price & wage controls when he was president. My wages were controlled, but prices....not so much.

[oldtech]

We as consumers most likely do not know what is added at each step after an item leaves the manufacturer so how are we to know who is doing the gouging?

[unread]

I would wager that it's the government that's doing all the gouging.. Higher taxes, environmental nit-picking, higher tariffs on imported goods, increased kickbacks and blackmail, slowdown in engineering and manufacturing due to DEI, not enforcing the laws against theft, etc, etc....

The Government is "micro managing" us to death.. :(

[bert]

No, as always, Kamela is a California democrat and anti business to the bone.

Business is the enemy of the people