We just can’t afford him any longer



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Corporations can be held accountable.

you good.

Just wondering....

plus there's a lot of competition. I don't see where he can have much influence. Except bankrupting all farmers, that would bring a temporary price drop. Until people started starving.

they told me that they had plenty of product in the back room - but their superiors were telling them to make the shelves look like - they were almost picked clean. The store raised prices on the products - because they knew they could get away with raising the prices during this bogus shortage.

Most retailers during that period did the same and they made a killing in profit during that time.

You remember. When everyone was out stocking their house with goods because they thought they wouldn't have anything to eat. The run on paper goods (toilet paper, hand towels, kleenex).

Those were the hay days for those stores.

I'm sure that these retailers are taking advantage of this situation too. This time they could blame it on the tariffs - so they are pushing the top end of product pricing again.

Everytime I go to the grocery store - I'm paying more money for the same product I used to get cheaper.

Might as well pile on. Everybody is doing it.

If the grocery stores want to go under all they have to do is attempt to appease president dumb ass.

don't you want a rebate? And a promise that they will not use algorithmic pricing to collude again? Otherwise they will just raise prices under Democratic Presidents and destroy their administrations and lower prices when a Republican President tells them to.

I want lower prices at the point of sale. Full stop. I see where the costs are being inflated. The farmers are benefiting from high prices. Lower the prices.

Rebates mask the price of goods. They lock in high margin, tie the consumer, and then rely on a rebate to equate back to a true market price. We use them to hide cost and pricing and bind customers. Rebates can be removed. They don’t allow supply and demand to change markets.

Pulled by Walgreens.
Inflate all the prices and then have special lower prices for the people who join their BS loyalty program.
I won't shop there.

The corporations that survived forever ever at 13% margins got used to 25% margins during Covid. The corporations and the stock market got used to those earnings. Raw material margins in manufacturing and base chemicals are down to pre-COVID. The corporations are maintaining the higher margins and preventing deflation. Products close to the consumer like milk and eggs are down in price, but highly processed goods have inflated margins. Negotiate on behalf of consumers to return margins to pre covid numbers and our prices will come down without gimmicks that hurt the markets.

Did your salary go up 119% also?.

I wouldn't. I was still working in 2019 and retired in 2021. I am now dependent on SS and my IRA.

The point is margins in that sector have doubled since Covid. That is the problem. But you are ok with doubling the net margin to pay the corporations and investor returns versus lower grocery pricing. The raw material prices have dropped but the money is absorbed in the middle before the consumer, which you are ok with. You are arguing for expanded margins to the stores.

We are living in a programocracy. We need our leaders to be really sharp when it comes to understanding IT and AI in particular. I don't know how we get leaders that can do that. We can get sincere leaders. We can get strong leaders. We can get smart leaders. But how you get leaders who thoroughly comprehend the situation we're in, I don't know.

They have no incentive to lead us. We made the job of leadership untenable. We flood the field with dimestore charisma, and photogenic people. So-called fighters. It's just a nightmare.