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Tay Zonday
@tayzonday
Grocery stores do have razor-thin operating margins. 3% is gargantuan. However, there is not a zero-sum relationship between food prices and that margin. Grocery stores are optimized for a KPI of revenue-per-linear-foot, which is why produce is always near the front. As a consumer, my value KPIs are calorie-per-dollar and gross-weight-per-dollar. It is possible that the store earns more from me per-linear-foot with a lower price that is offset by my increased purchase volume. This inflection point is dynamic and changing relative to inventory cost and sale prices to increase purchasing. The POLICY question regarding this inflection point and market manipulation is— are there cases where a grocer would be earning *more* revenue from me per-linear-foot at a lower food price— but chooses a higher price because *collective* supply-hoarding by my limited grocery-acquisition vectors (let’s say, five stores) unfairly creates a closed market where consolidated cartels mute Adam Smith’s “magic hand.”
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@king
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thoughtcrimeboss
@thoughtcrimeboss
There should be no policy questions at all, whatsoever, because the government has no right to interfere in trade. Without fail everytime the state intervenes to fix a problem, they either make it worse or create new different problems.
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dawufi
@dawufi
ok banger
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rathermercurial
@rathermercurial.eth
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