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applegrove

(130,003 posts)
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 06:37 PM 3 hrs ago

If Trump gets grocery corporations to lower their pricing algorithms

that is proof it is all collusion. Just monitor the prices of domestically farmed, produced groceries. If they come way down then we know. There was a collusion case prosecuted in Canada on the price of bread.

Trump Says Midterms Will Be About ‘Pricing’

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applegrove

(130,003 posts)
7. I mentioned that as an example, not to imply we were under the same laws.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 07:04 PM
2 hrs ago

Corporations can be held accountable.

Turbineguy

(39,800 posts)
6. A lot of grocery items are low profit margin
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 06:59 PM
2 hrs ago

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.

global1

(26,359 posts)
9. Back During The Grocery Shortage Days During The Pandemic - I Talked With Some Stockboys That Were Working The Shelves..
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 07:43 PM
2 hrs ago

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.

Keepthesoulalive

(2,101 posts)
10. How do you lower the price of coffee and other import items?
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 08:12 PM
1 hr ago

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

Melon

(987 posts)
11. I would never sue someone NOT to lower prices. Please get lower grocery prices by any means.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 08:16 PM
1 hr ago

applegrove

(130,003 posts)
12. But when they do that for Trump and the jig is up,
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 08:26 PM
1 hr ago

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.

Melon

(987 posts)
13. He'll no I don't want a rebate. I right contracts for a living. I write rebates for suckers.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 08:40 PM
1 hr ago

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.

Conjuay

(2,873 posts)
14. I love the 'special pricing' fraud
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 09:11 PM
47 min ago

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.

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