What stunning observational powers they have over there at the FTC. Too bad they don't have any teeth because the government doesn't fund them even close to adequately.
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Okay? Now fucking do something about it.
Duh!
I love all the headlines that declare [report about thing you already figured out years ago] was in fact true, like it's a fucking surprise. Some would say it's good to have corroborating data, but it never seems to help and I'm just exhausted being right so dammed often.
Of course, but they didn't lower the prices after. Fucking awful evil companies.
We need experts to explain and study what ordinary people fucking experience first hand
Has been in the news for months. Welcome to last week USAtoday.
Is this even news, ofc they did, give them an inch and they always take a mile, war, recessions and sickness are always a profiteering venture for business.
Don't think of your death as failure; think of it as fun! Don't think of Wal-Mart's price hikes as war profiteering, think of them as war... fun!
Death is the only thing we’re promised from life and without it, life would have little meaning. Death is simply a contract fulfillment.
Anyone got a link to the actual report?
See, it's very simple. You create a massive monopoly/duopoly/triopoly, to undercut, out compete and otherwise dominate small businesses, until they've been fazed out.... then once it's only you, and you decide the pricing, then you start screwing around with prices while politicians twiddle their thumbs.
Enshittification in a nutshell.
Split them up. We did it to the phone companies
Pikachu, I choose you ... to get here and make that face.
... you can't seriously build a system that is meant to take advantage of every situation, praise if for taking advantage of every situation, align it's interests in taking advantage of every situation and then be surprised it took advantage of a situation. We should be better than Pikachu.
We all knew they did.
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Followed by: water is wet
For now. But soon it will just depend on what brand wants to advertise using the whole of the sky.
Nothing happens to Corporations around here. It was pretty clear it was greed even before the data hit.
In other insanely obvious answers.... join us, tonight at 8.
Is anyone going to do anything about it? No
Everyone keeps saying this is capitalism and its true. Companies squeezing everyone when they're vulnerable for more profits.
Consumers need protections for things like basic needs so we don't struggle just to survive.
Food and housing should be protected. Luxury brands can get all the profit they want.
Don't touch my fucking groceries and rent!
This is why giant supermarkets are bad. When you have a choice of several places to buy, they compete.
Rent though has been captured by optimisation software. Your rent goes up because a computer predicted you (or someone else) would pay more.
Are you saying human quality of life is more important than (strictly financial) profits?? I'm thought that is blasphemy and that I must shame you for it. How dare.
Of course they did. We know they did. All you have to do is go back and read their quarterly earnings calls from 2020 to basically now and they told their shareholders clearly that they were using the pandemic as an excuse to increase profits.
It's ethical to steal from these grocery chains.
Isn't that what they call self checkout?
And that's why self checkout is no more at the closest grocery store to me.
... self-care out.
And yes, we definitely should realize how brainwashed we are to always think of the poor extremely rich people.
Fuck you talking about? They haven’t come down!
edit: actually I thought you were replying to the folks who were talking about inflation, but now I'm not sure what you're replying to, so maybe disregard the rest of this comment
Inflation dropping just refers to the rate at which prices increase slowing down, not prices themselves going down. Unless regional and federal governments do something, lowered inflation only means relative stability at current price levels.
I was talking to the writers of the article.
I’m sure this will result in swift, appropriate actions to hold them accountable. Just let me start holding my breath
Is it normal for you be turning purple when holding your breath?
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