I don’t think it’s all about the bird flu, some mark ups are definitely greed. Today I was at a target, eggs priced 9 dollars for a dozen low quality eggs. Ralph’s (West Coast Kroger’s) priced them at 9 also. However, a day ago I was also at a Sprouts and a Trader Joe’s, and the going rates were 4 dollars (although TJ was sold out). Hell, Sprout’s much tastier Pasture raised eggs were like, 8 bucks, although those birds are likely the least likely to get infected.
The thing that killed me is at Target in saw a very ill informed woman buying two 18 packs of crap white eggs for what I can only imagine cost her a second mortgage. Please shop responsibly, y’all.
Yep! These fucking monopolistic capitalist pigs have used every single fucking disaster as an opportunity to price gouge us and they have no intention of stopping.
It’s always greed, but corporations need an excuse, so you don’t get angry at them. Covid was the perfect example for that, when they see the opportunity, they will jack up the prices.
What happened during covid was the forcible closing of thousands of small businesses. Corporations don’t cate about excuses they only care about opportunity. When their competition got forcibly closed by the government, their opportunity appeared.
We had major big box stores staying open while mom and pop shops were closed.
This wasn’t the market in action. This was the government forcibly closing these businesses by centralized decree.
The lockdowns actively killed competition. Competition is the natural check on greed in a free market. The market was enormously consolidated during the period when small stores had to either survive on their savings or perish, while large stores were allowed to remain open.
I don’t think it’s all about the bird flu, some mark ups are definitely greed. Today I was at a target, eggs priced 9 dollars for a dozen low quality eggs. Ralph’s (West Coast Kroger’s) priced them at 9 also. However, a day ago I was also at a Sprouts and a Trader Joe’s, and the going rates were 4 dollars (although TJ was sold out). Hell, Sprout’s much tastier Pasture raised eggs were like, 8 bucks, although those birds are likely the least likely to get infected.
The thing that killed me is at Target in saw a very ill informed woman buying two 18 packs of crap white eggs for what I can only imagine cost her a second mortgage. Please shop responsibly, y’all.
Yep! These fucking monopolistic capitalist pigs have used every single fucking disaster as an opportunity to price gouge us and they have no intention of stopping.
What are you gonna do? Stop eating food?
Stopping eating eggs is pretty simple tbf
It’s always greed, but corporations need an excuse, so you don’t get angry at them. Covid was the perfect example for that, when they see the opportunity, they will jack up the prices.
What happened during covid was the forcible closing of thousands of small businesses. Corporations don’t cate about excuses they only care about opportunity. When their competition got forcibly closed by the government, their opportunity appeared.
We had major big box stores staying open while mom and pop shops were closed.
This wasn’t the market in action. This was the government forcibly closing these businesses by centralized decree.
The lockdowns actively killed competition. Competition is the natural check on greed in a free market. The market was enormously consolidated during the period when small stores had to either survive on their savings or perish, while large stores were allowed to remain open.