• Re: grocery store bullshi

    From Irish_Monk@VERT/WARPED to MRO on Tue Aug 30 20:24:00 2022
    Anybody else seeing this high price grocery store bullshit and games? prices are still going up.

    Yes, it is absolutely crazy. What kills me is, gas prices go up every year, other companies/industries freak out and raise their prices, Then as always the gas prices usually come back down. But, the other industries the prices are still up there. And then the following year when gas goes back up they raise prices again. Not Right at all!!!

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Irish_Monk on Wed Aug 31 03:15:20 2022
    Re: Re: grocery store bullshi
    By: Irish_Monk to MRO on Tue Aug 30 2022 08:24 pm

    Anybody else seeing this high price grocery store bullshit and games? prices are still going up.

    Yes, it is absolutely crazy. What kills me is, gas prices go up every year, other companies/industries freak out and raise their prices, Then as always the gas prices usually come back down. But, the other industries the prices are still up there. And then the following year when gas goes back up they raise prices again. Not Right at all!!!

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    in wisconsin the milk producers do this frequently. about every 15 years there's a lawsuit and they lose but only the lawyers make money off of it and it's profitable to behave this way for the farmers.
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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Irish_Monk on Wed Aug 31 02:33:30 2022
    Re: Re: grocery store bullshi
    By: Irish_Monk to MRO on Tue Aug 30 2022 08:24 pm

    Anybody else seeing this high price grocery store bullshit and games? prices are still going up.

    Yes, it is absolutely crazy. What kills me is, gas prices go up every year, other c
    n the following year when gas goes back up they raise prices again. Not Right at al

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    ... I'm not a complete idiot... Several parts are missing!

    Issue is as follows:

    If I have glass jar factory and the fuel costs rise, it is more expensive for me to
    make jars. If I make jars while the fuel is expensive, then I have to sell them for
    more in order to recoup the investment taken to produce them, even if the fuel price
    goes down right afterwards.

    Meanwhile, if I produce the jars while the fuel is cheap, and then the fuel gets
    expensive, I have to raise the price of the jars in order to be able to afford producing the next batch of jars.

    TL;DR: there is a reason for prices not going down short after fuel goes down.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Arelor on Wed Aug 31 04:08:58 2022
    Re: Re: grocery store bullshi
    By: Arelor to Irish_Monk on Wed Aug 31 2022 02:33 am


    If I have glass jar factory and the fuel costs rise, it is more expensive for me to make jars. If I make jars while the fuel is expensive, then I have to sell them for more in order to recoup the investment taken to produce them, even if the fuel price goes down right afterwards.

    Meanwhile, if I produce the jars while the fuel is cheap, and then the fuel gets expensive, I have to raise the price of the jars in order to be able to afford producing the next batch of jars.

    TL;DR: there is a reason for prices not going down short after fuel goes down.

    we dont mean shortly. we mean forever. when that price drops, it does not drop unless people stop buying. also there's always a trick. outsource from india or someplace else. someone needs money and they will do it cheaper.
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  • From Irish_Monk@VERT/WARPED to Arelor on Wed Aug 31 09:43:00 2022
    TL;DR: there is a reason for prices not going down short after fuel goes down.

    Makes sense. Next time I will think before I throw something out there. It just seems like you always see prices going up, and never down even after gas prices go down. But they probably do. But what you said makes absolute sense.

    Thanks!!

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