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Offline Hoodat

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Re: Warren targets supermarket chains over high food prices
« Reply #25 on: December 21, 2021, 11:50:30 pm »
Maybe they shouldn't have arbitrarily jacked up food stamp allotments by 27%.  And they seriously wonder why prices went up?  I already have to compete with some lazy POS sitting on their ass waiting for Uncle Sam to up the balance on their EBT card.  Except now that lazy POS has 27% more money to compete with than they did four months ago.
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Re: Warren targets supermarket chains over high food prices
« Reply #26 on: December 21, 2021, 11:53:19 pm »
Quote from: GrouchoTex on December 21, 2021, 07:49:23 pm
It all starts with Fuel.
Fuel to use in the equipment to farm it, to manufacture the cartons and container it ships in.
Fuel to bring it in, to run the forklifts to unload it.
Fuel to get the store workers and the customer to the stores to sell and buy the products.
EVERYTHING moves somehow, and if you raise the prices to move EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING goes up in price.
(not to mention to cool it, ot to heat it, etc.)

I have a great idea!
First, will lock everyone down, and then when we open back up:

Let's kill our pipelines, and let Russia open theirs.
Let's ban fracking, too!
Then, lets beg OPEC and oil companies to lower profits.
We'll just blame it on greed, since no one understands economics, anyway.

Nah, I'll just blame it on China, Joe, and Fauci.
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Re: Warren targets supermarket chains over high food prices
« Reply #27 on: December 22, 2021, 12:23:24 am »
Quote from: libertybele on December 21, 2021, 11:53:19 pm
Nah, I'll just blame it on China, Joe, and Fauci.
So China, Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber?

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Re: Warren targets supermarket chains over high food prices
« Reply #28 on: December 22, 2021, 12:42:35 am »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on December 21, 2021, 11:31:59 pm
The margin most groceries make is less than 5%, and usually less than 2%.

What gouging does she speak of?

@Free Vulcan

She has no idea. I doubt she has personally gone grocery shopping in decades. It's something she has the hired help do  for her.
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Re: Warren targets supermarket chains over high food prices
« Reply #29 on: December 22, 2021, 01:00:50 am »
Quote from: GtHawk on December 22, 2021, 12:23:24 am
So China, Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber?



Exactly.  :beer:
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Re: Warren targets supermarket chains over high food prices
« Reply #30 on: December 22, 2021, 01:29:39 am »
catfish wrote:
"the sad fact is that 95% of the country doesn't understand this."

And Kamaji replied:
"That is the truly tragic fact"

It is not "tragedy", Comrade.
It is "by design".
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Re: Warren targets supermarket chains over high food prices
« Reply #31 on: December 22, 2021, 06:33:13 pm »
Quote from: libertybele on December 21, 2021, 11:53:19 pm
Nah, I'll just blame it on China, Joe, and Fauci.

Okay, but if you were a Dem, you'd blame it on greed, (or climate change, or racism).
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