• @SamuelRJankis
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      511 months ago

      When 80 percent of eligible voters stop voting for the same two parties or not bothering to vote at all.

  • @[email protected]
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    2511 months ago

    Then their margins must be razor thin… Executive compensation really low…

    Annnnnnd a quick check of their annual reports demonstrates that they are quite literally full of shit.

  • Nik282000
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    Store employees do not have the right to check your receipt after going through the self checkout (unless it’s at Costco)

    You were never trained on the operation of a self checkout machine

    Everything is a potato

  • @[email protected]
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    1311 months ago

    So what? The demand for food is inelastic—all humans need a decent amount of it and you can’t buy it used. Demand can never drop below a certain level, regardless of the price being charged. So regardless of how many companies are involved, they’ll make the most money by keeping the prices high. Actual competition doesn’t benefit them.

    You could replace the full text of any grocery company’s press releases and interviews these days with “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche,” and express the same thing much more succinctly.

  • @[email protected]
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    1311 months ago

    He’s not lying, it’s just that the competition they’re playing is who can make the most profit.

  • jadero
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    911 months ago

    They could start by focusing on profits instead of margins. I don’t care if your margins are 50% or .005%, if you’re extracting billions in profit, you have room to reduce your margins, preferably through some combination of price drops and increased wages for everyone who works in the actual retail outlet.

  • @garbagebagel
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    He’s right, the only thing more competitive is our telecoms. /s

  • @[email protected]
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    sobeys c-suite should be arrested along with the regulators that continue to rotate in and out of service to this large corporations and their fucking regulatory bodies and publicly executed.

    Change my mind.

    • Funderpants
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      311 months ago

      Settle down Garfield. Wouldn’t a cleaner option be to tax excess profit?