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Is this also in reference to the bazinga-powered on-site price gouging that's starting to come into vogue in numerous grocery stores?

Opposing that makes you a communist. If that was so, that'd be a lot of new communists. sicko-wistful

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[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 64 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Grocery stores operate on razor thin margins

doubt

Even if they are somebody in the supply chain most definitely isn't operating on razor thin margins.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago

Despite operating on razor-thin margins they still make record profits after throwing out half their inventory every day

[-] The_Jewish_Cuban@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago

Love worrying about "loss prevention" while half of the fresh stock we have is thrown into the trash.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago

exactly, its financial engineering. that way they avoid paying taxes meanwhile their offshore companies get insane margins.

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 62 points 3 months ago

Weird how grocery stores run on "razor-slim margins" but still keep pulling in record profits year after year, wonder what that's about.

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The corporate entity that owns the liability associated with food sales has razor slim profit margins, but the other corporate entities involved in grocery sales that exist to siphon off surplus value in more tax efficient ways are making fat stacks!

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 47 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Communism is when you oppose tiny cameras on the shelf that use ai to scan your naked body and determine based on how shitty your clothes are how much you're going to pay morshupls

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago

brb dressing homeless and not showering to get that sweet AI discount

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago

nonono you misunderstood, dressing poor, you pay MORE money biden-troll

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 3 months ago

Then they call cops to jail you for vagrancy.

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

For-profit prisons yearn for the slaves.

[-] Omegamint@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago

It's amazing how mask off Musk is now, lol

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

Makes you wonder about what the other billionaires say and believe behind closed doors.

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 38 points 3 months ago

"Maybe we should make food cheaper?"

"FUCK YOU NOOOOOO" frothingfash

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago

the liberal National Convention in 1793 implementing the General Maximum: Communism

the United States Food Administration in 1917: Communism

301 AD, Roman Emperor Diocletian writing the Edict on Maximum Prices: you better goddamn believe that was Communism

[-] VHS@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago
[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

avowed communist. remember when he negotiated with the Chinese instead of threatening them with nuclear destruction? and the EPA??!?!

[-] KimJongFun@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

Richard Nixon said "We're all Keynesians now"

For those who don't know their history, John Milton Keynes was a Communist

[-] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago

A store comes out with a surge pricing scheme and suddenly the "public discourse" is that telling grocery stores what to do is communism.

This is by design. This is PR to get ahead of the lawsuits coming.

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago

If I go to the rich people grocery store I see the same items for $1-2 more at least.

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

How else are they going to keep the poors out?

[-] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago

Everything I don't like is communist!

All that and more on a billiard ball brains guide on politics

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago

american grocery stores are "hyper-competitive" michael-laugh

[-] glans@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago

in high school there was this new kid who had just moved from central europe. she told my friend, who told me and the rest of our friends, that back home there were laws about the price of bread and milk. they had to be cheap so that everyone could afford to eat nutritious food. Honestly I remember the expression on my friends face, very serious, when sharing this. it was a very important piece of information.

none of us had ever heard the concept of price controls before. but damn that's obviously a good idea. we talked about how it wasn't really fair to celiacs and vegans and hypothosized how that could be addressed. but in general the idea of a government making such an intervention was a real brainwave.

it's a pretty boring story but somehow was formative on me and I think of it all the time. especially when i do groceries.

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

so are they considering price-controls? Or did the right invent this themselves?

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[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

Patiently waiting for Palmer Lucky to have an accident with his murder headset. popcorn-time

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

melon-musk with the Hank Venture level of processing reality:

"I think they're drunk on rum...because they're pirates!"

[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

Schroedingers profit margins lmao

[-] moujikman@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

They won't do it so it's not even worth thinking about.

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