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To: SeekAndFind

What price gouging?


4 posted on 08/15/2024 7:15:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
What price gouging?

Groceries have some of the slimmest profit margins by retailers. They make up for this in volume.

Telling grocers what they HAVE to charge will kill many of them, especially the small ones.

14 posted on 08/15/2024 7:18:59 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: BenLurkin
What price gouging?

Exactly... it'll sound like something great to low-information voters, but it will do nothing since there's no actual problem to fix here. Meanwhile, the media will announce that she's 'solved inflation'.

23 posted on 08/15/2024 7:21:40 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s what grocery stores do when forced to pay mandated minimum wages, twice as much for fuel to keep the shelves stocked, are prohibited from stopping shoplifters, etc.


24 posted on 08/15/2024 7:22:04 AM PDT by bigbob
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I thought they said grocery prices have only gone up 3%.

Problem with her nut brain thinking is the farmer has to pay out the nose for workers’ wages so the price has already skyrocketed. Is she going to put wages back down at pre-covid?


34 posted on 08/15/2024 7:25:38 AM PDT by bgill
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To: BenLurkin
What price gouging?

A price increase without a donation to the Democratic Party

72 posted on 08/15/2024 7:55:43 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: BenLurkin

Nice deflection by kneepads Harris. The US government has destroyed the dollar. The food isn’t more expensive, the Dollar is worth less so it takes more of them to buy the same things.


76 posted on 08/15/2024 8:08:46 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: BenLurkin

The alleged extra 2% in prices from profits is apparently gouging. The extra 30% in inflation is not gouging.


116 posted on 08/15/2024 2:18:08 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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