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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf 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 âPricingâ
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marble falls
(70,597 posts)dweller
(27,790 posts)We just cant afford him any longer
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stonecutter357
(12,970 posts)Ms. Toad
(38,118 posts)applegrove
(130,003 posts)Corporations can be held accountable.
ret5hd
(22,146 posts)you good.
Bayard
(28,396 posts)Turbineguy
(39,800 posts)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)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)If the grocery stores want to go under all they have to do is attempt to appease president dumb ass.
Melon
(987 posts)applegrove
(130,003 posts)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)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 dont allow supply and demand to change markets.
Conjuay
(2,873 posts)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.