re: So sick of the price of everything right now.

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Is it the kind you soft touch and it closes by itself? If not I'm not coming to your house again.

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It is indeed. Top of the line seat. Even has the little extra seat you can put down for the kids

4 more years

$100 filets, $75 dollar chicken entrees, $25 dollar shrimp cocktails, etc is fricking insane.

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$100 filets, $75 dollar chicken entrees, $25 dollar shrimp cocktails, etc is fricking insane.

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At this rate we may eventually find out just how many eating joints are actually needed in a given part of town. Talk about an overly saturated market. But hey, they're all packed when I drive by, so we're still good right now I guess.

A while back I stood in the parking lot of a restaurant on a stretch of road that ten to twelve years ago was cotton fields. I didn't move from the spot I was standing, just turned 360°, and counted 14 restaurants within sight. If I had climbed to the top of one of them I could have probably counted a dozen more. I don't see how they're all staying in business. I'd bet good money that ten years down the line, if I'm still kicking, I can return to that spot and count empty buildings. Or, maybe then I will be counting mattress stores and pay day loan joints.

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They are all just taking advantage of consumers

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Is that not how economics works?

A corporation has a responsibility to maximize shareholder wealth. If pricing your dog food and toiletries really high doesn't reduce sales enough to reduce revenues/profits, then people are still buying it, so there's no justification for them to charge the cheaper price.


I'd love cheaper prices across the board too. But if we're paying extra for these items, then corporations will obviously continue to raise prices.

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There are legitimate market forces at work too that the government has no control over.

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Did these market forces just suddenly appear once Biden took office?

Corporations are pricing you into voting for their interests. As soon as they break you into voting for the corporatists, and continue to get their way, they will lower prices by about 6%. And then they will get you on the backend with us holding the debt of the nation. It's a very easy thing to see.

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You paid for it, so there's not much argument for a corporation not to price it at that pricepoint if you and others are willing to pay for it at that price.

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I read this then looked to see who posted this trash

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shel311

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Go frickin figure

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Did these market forces just suddenly appear once Biden took office

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Do you really think Biden invented inflation? A good portion of it is the massive COVID spending coming home to roost. Another part is, ironic given the name, the Inflation Reduction Act. The last part is the increase in capital costs which can be partially blamed on our current industrial build-out and partially on the retiring Boomers taking their money out of the market.

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Get used to it, prices will never go back down.

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It's up to us, we can force them to bring prices back down.

But complaining on a message board it's not how it'll get done, and people will mostly only complain then, as we see in this thread, still go out to dinner and still pay for that dog food, so no, corporations won't bring prices back down as long as we keep paying for it.