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metsmarathon wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 8:05 am the worst part about buying pastrami is not the price, but the long long wait for them to slice the damn thing. it's like 200 slices per pound, damnit.

Lefty Specialist wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2024 4:48 pm $2.74 on Route 22 in Scotch Plains, NJ

Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2024 10:06 pm Whoopi knows why inflation exists:

"Your pocketbook is bad not because the Bidens did anything, not because the economy is bad; your grocery bills are high because the folks who run the grocery stores are pigs ("and no one has articulated that" echoes [some woman] on 'The View')
"Gas is high not because the Bidens didn't try to help but because the folks who control that decided, 'I want my money'.



Now there's a woman who understands economics!!

Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 4:45 pm Price "gouging" is a very specific, and illegal, thing dealing with the jacking up of prices in times of shortages or emergencies: bottled water when normal supplies are interrupted; during the great toilet paper shortage of 2020; snow shovels in the aftermath of a big storm, and that sort of thing.

What Whoopi (and Kamala for that matter) are selling is the idea that a certain price is deemed 'too high' on account of it being higher than it used to be, or simply because they say it is which brings with it the logical assumption that they somehow know, from the outside looking in, where the correct prices should be making those charging anything else the villains. These "pigs", as Whoopi calls them, would also need to be in cahoots with their competition otherwise their price jacking would wind up losing them a lot of customers especially in the grocery business where profit margins are thin and competition thick.



and btw Whoopi (if you're reading), most of the recent posts on this thread are about how low gas prices are at the moment so I guess 'those in control' all decided at once that they don't want your money nearly as much as they used to.

Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 2:26 pm My point is to try and push back on this notion that there's a 'correct' price for items, one that's universally known and agreed upon, and that there needs to be some sort of retribution or government action taken against those charging a higer price. If you think someone is selling something at the 'wrong' price then don't buy it. If it's something you need or want then buy it somewhere where it's being sold at the right price. And if everyone is selling it at the supposed wrong price then, absent massive collusion and price-fixing, it's not really the wrong price, is it?

Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 2:26 pm My point is to try and push back on this notion that there's a 'correct' price for items, one that's universally known and agreed upon, and that there needs to be some sort of retribution or government action taken against those charging a higer price. If you think someone is selling something at the 'wrong' price then don't buy it. If it's something you need or want then buy it somewhere where it's being sold at the right price. And if everyone is selling it at the supposed wrong price then, absent massive collusion and price-fixing, it's not really the wrong price, is it?