Yimi_Kyrabo
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Can you see that price?! $2.49 EACH for a Jalapeño pepper. This is from a local grocery store in my area, It makes their $2.09/pounds onions… all of which are a pound or more, look like a bargain. SMH. Greed!
03:13 PM - May 05, 2024
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Yimi_Kyrabo
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This is a major problem with capitalism. How do you get business owners large and small, to have a heart, to balance profits with easily available income stats for a given area?

‘Caring’ is not among any of the bullets on syllabuses for economics or business classes.
09:06 PM - May 05, 2024
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frog_enabler
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I think I paid about two dollars for six at Aldi. They are sold in a package though. Groceries are theft in the big chains now. They’ve marked them up about 35 % on average, because they can.
07:26 PM - May 05, 2024
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Yimi_Kyrabo
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“Because they can” is the truth. This store sits where you gotta drive 12 miles in one direction, or 17 in another to get to a competitor. They have a niche location in a mostly low income area and they are pure predators. I often drive past them but their bakery sometimes summons my waistline.
08:57 PM - May 05, 2024
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Larry Canuck
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A loud invitation to shop somewhere else...
04:23 PM - May 05, 2024
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Chuck McManis
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In response to Yimi_Kyrabo.
One thing I've noticed in small groceries is that they raise the prices of things that can be bought with WIC/EBT. This increases the margin for the grocer and effectively reduces the EBT/WIC benefit for the buyer. It is worse then greed, its evil.
03:32 PM - May 05, 2024
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Michael J Sheridan
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You'd think they'd at least have the courtesy to hold you at gunpoint while they're robbing you.
03:20 PM - May 05, 2024
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Yimi_Kyrabo
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In response to Michael J Sheridan.
🤣🤣🤣Great point.
03:23 PM - May 05, 2024
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Drea
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As someone whose grocery bills are just shy of a mortgage payment at times, I cannot wait for the garden to take off.
03:20 PM - May 05, 2024
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