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leftstreet

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8. Grocery conglomerates should be screaming about this

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Sun Oct 26, 2025, 03:13 PM

Oct 2025

The lost revenue from EBT purchases will be ginormous, and there's no way they could raise their prices enough to make up for the loss

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Cutting snap benefits will cause ripples across the land. [View all] Swede Oct 2025 OP

Merry Christmas lame54 Oct 2025 #1

Those ripples will be dwarfed by the tsunami caused by eliminating the ACA and it's subsidies. Hugin Oct 2025 #2

My post was specifically about groceries. Swede Oct 2025 #3

Yes, I am aware of that... Hugin Oct 2025 #4

Spoken like someone who has never missed a meal questionseverything Oct 2025 #5

Quite the assumption there. n/t Hugin Oct 2025 #6

Hugin was making a point about the larger disaster that is happening and meant no belittling of this disaster. Swede Oct 2025 #9

So food prices will rise to offset the lost sales intrepidity Oct 2025 #7

Grocery conglomerates should be screaming about this leftstreet Oct 2025 #8

Oh yes, We can see that coming.. Cha Oct 2025 #10

No, ultimately the fault is with voters misanthrope Oct 2025 #11