Do you complain when the shovel goes on sale for $10 in March?
Or did you think ahead and buy it the previous March for $10?
That's the way to fix it Joe...sit on your arse while the country suffers.
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Or did you think ahead and buy it the previous March for $10?
Yes, Kroger and others perhaps have to do what they have to do. The point is that companies are indiscriminately price gouging. That's what I'm generally talking about. I mentioned grocery stores because that is obviously where we go to get groceries where the prices have skyrocketed since the pandemic.
No I don't and I've bought many stuff out of season when they go on sale. But I do find it very wrong to increase the price when a disaster is ensuing.
Let me ask you. You don't mind paying extra money for a shovel when a blizzard is coming?
Probably not. But you are still missing the point. Price gouging from whoever the culprit is what has caused inflation to increase.
I told you, egg producers, milk producers, meat producers, whatever else that we buy at the stores that have increased.
Depending on where you live, a blizzard is not a disaster but just something you are used to dealing with.
I do mind paying extra money and think to myself, why didn't I plan ahead for winter and buy a shovel.
I don't think to myself, I wish the gov would hold my hand and do my thinking for me.
You are kinda skiting around my question. Is it wrong for the hardware store to raise prices on shovels before a forecasted blizzard? Is it wrong for hardware stores to raise prices on plywood to board windows days before a hurricane? To me that is price gouging.
So you don’t think farmers, cattle ranchers, egg and dairy producers, etc should raise their prices when their raw costs increase?
Economics - SHORT TERM supply & demand.
Lol. And as short term....has Nothing to do with your theory on Biden not responsible for these prices.
Lol don't tell me you are equating short term S&D price gouging to what Biden has done to the economy for 4 years !
Lol. Love the laughs, keep em comin
Dude, when there is a crisis like the pandemic, hurricane or tornado disasters, whoever is raising prices just to raise prices in those times are price gouging. We can argue all day about who, but someone is responsible for it.
I’m talking about farmers, ranchers, and other food producers.
Are you saying they should do all the work, not pass on their cost increases, and not make a profit?
No, I keep telling y'all they raise prices just to raise prices. Price gouging. Corporate greed. Whatever you want to call it it happened. Happening since the pandemic. Happened for decades before and after tragic events of various types of weather disasters.
We can argue all day on whether or not price gouging was the cause of the high inflation. However, when it comes to raising prices before and after extreme weather events y'all can't convince me that corporations ain't indiscriminately raising prices much needed items for those events.
Are you saying that farmers and other food producers haven’t had their costs increase?
