Anakin and Padmé meme: So we're going to fine them that amount, or force them to refund it to their customers, right?
Right?
Consequences!!?? No, we're just telling you about this shit we found.
To be pedantic, in the meme format (as in the original movie), Padmé asks the same question twice. The second question is not just "Right?" https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/for-the-better-right
I have altered the meme. Pray I don't alter it more.
Oh goodness, you're very good at getting my goat.
"Pray I don't alter it any further." https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-am-altering-the-deal
Luke to Darth Vader "Anakin I am your son!"
Yes, that was part of the joke.
I'm not usually a stickler for adhering closely to meme "rules" but this one drives me batty. I never have the courage to correct folks though, so have your lemmy gold!
Yeah, he was literally bragging about it on the quarterly earnings calls as it was happening. They’ve only paused the price gouging now that it’s a hot topic, don’t think for a minute prices will go back down or that this won’t resume in a year or so when there’s some other distraction available.
We need regulations to stop this predatory behavior, and we desperately need to break up monopolies like Kroger, if this problem is to be mitigated.
Nono, you misunderstand! Prices going down is a very bad sign as it means something is very wrong!
-Every economist ever without explanation or clarification whatsoever
They don't clarify, because if they did it would be clear who it's "wrong" for.
Spoiler alert: It ain't you and me.
The problem is we talk about the economy in terms like "revenue" "profit" or "prices".
We need to change the language of the economy to appeal to its true creed: line go up. It's Economics 101. Line go up, forever.
Hence, I propose we talk about the cost of things on units of "not getting fucked"
Use phrases like, "the not getting fucked on tomato sauce has been dropping lately"
Why break them up when you can just let them get bigger. I'd bet my job the fucking merger is still happening.
Of course it’s still happening, this is just a side puppet show to distract from that fact. Now they’ve realized most of the population would vote in an uneducated felon again, so they see they faked having a heart for nothing. Which was cutting into their profits all along.
Until there’s serious consequences and bankruptcy looming, they’ll continue shitting on us like we’re Japanese businessmen with a fetish.
We price gouged the plebs. We know the government isn't going to do anything and if they try our good ol' friends at SCOTUS will make sure nothing happens to us. Long live the line always going up!
-Andy Goff
"There is not just one bad apple in this bunch," Powers said, adding that most companies who engage in price gouging receive limited consequences.
Because customers generally still have choices to shop at other grocers like Walmart, Thompson said Kroger is unlikely to experience any severe consequences from the FTC.
Despite the fact that this is likely a larger problem in the grocery sector, Ryan said consumers could react swiftly with their wallets.
Yeah, and go to the next grocery store with the same prices and behind-the-scenes policies, and buy the same overprices eggs... But hey, at least they didn't admit to the lie.
Hmmmm. Maybe, since all stores are doing this, we should just institute price fixing on certain goods? Oh but I forgot, that'd be bad for the corporation and their profits, and that's obviously more important than citizens being able to afford groceries at a reasonable price.
so there's already not enough competition in the grocery store market. Why is kroger being allowed to merge at this point?
~~Lobbying~~ Bribery
but don't worry!, there will not be any negative consequences for him or his company!
And now his workers are on strike
And yet they may still be allowed to ~~merge with~~ assimilate Albertson's, leaving so many neighborhoods with less (or even zero) choices for where to ~~buy groceries~~ get price gouged
Hopefully the colorado suit shuts that down
For all of these companies trying to merge the default answer should be no. Merging companies isn't good for capitalism at all in any way so if any company wants to merge they should have to get special permissions. This shit is out of control.
Agreed. I have no issues with capitalism but I have a huge issue with monopolies. Just buying out the competition isn’t competing.
Fuck Kroger
I stopped getting my groceries at Kroger unless I need just a few items quickly (I have 2 less than 2 miles from my house). Most stuff is more expensive at Kroger than Meijer or even Walmart and if doing the whole list it ads a lot to my expenses
Is price gouging illegal?
Kamala is proposing making it illegal at the federal level.
And that's why there is a portion of people who dislike Harris; they dislike anything.
only for the poors
Some jackass economist will pop in and say that there's no such thing as price gouging. That prices are set by market demand. It is true to an extent, because if people weren't buying things at those prices, then the store would lower the price. The problem with groceries is that there isn't really a price discovery method for the average person unless they go to every possible store and price compare. It's not like you can go online and find prices for every option and alternative for groceries. People just assumed that prices have gone up due to natural inflation, which isn't the case here.
It's supposed to be, but laws generally only kick in if there's an emergency like an earthquake or hurricane.
I've always had a rule that all my decisions should be the ones that make my mother the most proud. Sometimes it's a choice between two things she'd probably dislike (like getting a tattoo or a piercing), but I always do the thing that has the better chance of making her proud.
Recently I've started stealing from large evil corps. Not even gonna sugar coat it. I go to self checkout and just don't scan things here or there. Whoops I left that thing in my cart. Whoops I left half of the bag of lemons off the scale and they rang up for 10c. Whoops, that eyeliner pencil fell into the unnecessary plastic wrap of that other thing and I didn't scan it.
I recently mentioned this to my mum and she laughed. She was proud. Because fuck Kroger, fuck these companies gouging us, stealing our land and food and ability to sustain ourselves without giving them a cut. Fuck people who hoard money so hard that people fucking die because of it. Boycotting shitty companies is what makes mums proud.
Literally starving people for money. If there is a hell, they will go there 100% what shitty humans..... Must be psychotic narcissist. How else would you sleep at night?
outrageous!
Maybe i'll travel to Canada to shop at a non-Kroger grocery store in boycott.
Hopefully Kroger will pay the government a fine and continue to gouge the rest of us.
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