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Wondering how much more of my life I'm going to have to live watching our society become less stable every single time Republicans gain control before Americans put 2 and 2 together.
Based on the last 10 years, I'm assuming it just isn't going to happen.
based on 45 years you are likely correct.
They also jack up their local prices based on need.
When the flood hit Texas, a 5gal water cost 17$.
Two weeks later, back to the normal price of 7.99$
$7.99 for water is ridiculous. Humans literally need it to survive. It should be free.
Yeah but then the liberal freeloaders won't have incentive to work /s
I just can't accept that employee owned grocery stores like WinCo are somehow keeping prices down but big grocery stores like Kroger are just skyrocketing.
Prices on many items are literally 200% the cost of the same exact item at WinCo.
They don't pay their employees more so where is that extra 100% profit going?
Employee owned stores have a massive competitive advantage over corporate owned stores.
They have no shareholders.
Corporate stores need to show consistent growth in profits, not simply consistent profits.
Employee owned stores can at least get by without making more profits year after year, as long as they make enough to pay themselves and keep up with maintenance.
Employee owned stores can even get by with exact 0 profits, since the employees would've already gotten their fair share in the form of their salary.
The Walmart in my town is weird as fuck because it barely has any food in it. Like MAYBE 10% of their floorspace is foodstuffs. And it used to be okay because there was an employee-owned grocery store in town. Well, that grocery store chain apparently got bought out recently, and not only are they raising their prices faster than Walmart, they also can't keep the shelves stocked because the people doing the ordering don't work in the stores. I'm actually thinking I might have to start driving an hour to the nearest WinCo if prices keep skyrocketing like this.
Walmart used not sell food. That's fairly new.
Yeah, I get that. This one store has remained in its early-2000s renovation layout while all the other nearby locations of its size went the opposite direction and became Neighborhood Markets and only sell food. That's what has me baffled by it.
Interesting.
Nice! Is MAGA happening yet?
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I don’t advocate stealing in general but if it’s Walmart and you’re not using violence against the employees I ain’t mad atcha
Cool I'll just shop literally anywhere the fuck else.
Yeah because all the other stores don't have the same problems... 👌
Lol😂 like I'm gonna shop at anything other than a family owned, mom and pop shop.
If I could I'd stop buying anything at all but that's a bit unrealistic.
There is a local organic grocery store a block away that I’ve stopped at for basics here and there and nothing else really due to it being more expensive, but their prices haven’t changed so now it has become the cheaper option for most things. Check out your local organic grocery stores.
Yeah it's also like this is an entirely manufactured thing.
M&Ms used to be pretty expensive but their prices haven't risen as much as the grocery stores have and now they are comparable. Sill a bit more expensive, but the quality is way better.
As kids, my mom used to send us to the corner store (literally the opposite corner). you Waited in line and when your turn came up you would ask for 1kg of sugar or whatever. If you forgot you had to wait on the side. The guy at the counter owned the store and he would go get you a Kg of sugar in a bag from a bigger sack or a barrel. He would weigh it for you. Then he would calculate how much it was based on his own price per kg.
Just saying, things could get a heck of a lot worse than having to ask the teller for condoms and a razor pack.
you Waited in line
literal communism
Stopped going to Walmart because prices were comparable everywhere else. Or, the price was slightly lower but the quality was garbage.
I remember back about a decade ago, I was buying kitchen stuff, getting ready for moving out of home for the 2nd time. I had gotten a few things from one of the specialty stores but was with my partner at the time at a walmart (which I hated already and wouldn't have been there on my own) and decided to hold my nose and grab some other things we still needed while there.
Only when I looked at the prices, they weren't any better than the specialty place. Some things were even worse.
I realized they probably just advertised some loss leaders to get people in and then their prices for everything else were normal or high.
What do they mean "on a week to week basis"? We've been shown, based on their television adverts in the last decade, that the little yellow price ball does that all the time. Were those commercials fake news?! /s
At least there will be lots of new minimum wage jobs for those that have to re-price all the inventory on a weekly basis.
Most stores I go to nowadays have those electronic price tags that can be changed en masse by a corporate drone somewhere from far away. Scary.
Actually changing the price of the SKUs in the system is easy, that's just a few mouseclicks, but the consumer needs to know the prices, and Walmart is still using stickers on the packages, and paper tags on the shelves. For the near future, that part, the HARD part, is all manual.
I work in Walmarts, and all of my stores have recently(over the last few months) rolled out the e-ink electronic price tags. I wouldn't be surprised if the tariff drama is the reason they decided to pull the trigger to save a bunch of price-change labor.
That's exactly why, count on it.
Oh they want to price gouge now that everyone is excited for the radioactive shrimp
If they want to fix this, they should put a "Trump did that!" sticker by the new prices.
In case anyone was interested in where to find such stickers .... (Scroll about halfway down if you don't wanna enjoy the ride to find this one specifically) https://www.equalityink.com/product-page/trump-i-did-that-big-sticker-pack-100-pcs
"Eat the tariffs" - As if companies like Walmart would love to make less profits just to please politics. Heck, they usually pay politicians to help them make more profits!
Hey! wanna play a fun game? find a few items in walmart and take note of their price, then take note of the new tariff price, now the fun part, after the tariffs are over see if the price goes back to the pre tariff price (be fair adjust for inflation) .
Spoiler if the items still sell at the tariff price they will only go down a fraction of the tariff increase.