That’s $3 for 15 eggs. Sadly not free-range, only cage-free.

Not sure if this is the best community for this post, does anyone have a better suggestion?

  • Flying Squid
    1•17 hours ago

    The guy admitted to price fixing and you’re just pretending he didn’t. Baffling.

    • @[email protected]
      1•16 hours ago

      I don’t see anything about price fixing in that article, I just see “price gouging.” My increment understanding is that companies can set their prices however they choose, unless they’re a monopoly (obviously varies by jurisdiction).

      Price fixing (colluding with other companies on setting prices) is illegal, price gouging (increasing prices unnecessarily) isn’t.

      I’m not making a value statement here, in fact I’m trying very hard to keep personal opinions out of it. I’m merely saying that this looks just like every other time supply has been disrupted, and like every other time, prices will come back down.

      • Flying Squid
        1•7 hours ago

        You know how people can not say things but those things are still true?

        Price gouging is similar to profiteering but can be distinguished by being short-term and localized and by being restricted to essentials such as food, clothing, shelter, medicine, and equipment needed to preserve life and property.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging

        This was not localized or short-term.

        But apparently you are very big on “hail corporate” capitalism, so I clearly will not be able to convince you that corporations may possibly not have your best interests in mind.

        • @[email protected]
          1•16 minutes ago

          corporations may possibly not have your best interests in mind.

          I 100% agree with that, but that doesn’t make then evil in much the same way that a bear isn’t evil even though it wants to maul you.

          Corporations are greedy and exist to maximize profit. They can sometimes appear to align with your interests, but that’s not because some corporations are “good” and others are “evil,” but because their selfish incentives happen to align with your selfish incentives.

          In other words, if a corporation is abusing the system, we need to fix the system, not the corporation. Price gouging shouldn’t be illegal, it should be unprofitable. Making it illegal means trusting politicians and judges to be incorruptible, whereas making it unprofitable fixes itself. That’s hard, but it’ll be a lot more effective.