Anakin and Padmé meme: So we’re going to fine them that amount, or force them to refund it to their customers, right?
Right?
Consequences!!?? No, we’re just telling you about this shit we found.
To be pedantic, in the meme format (as in the original movie), Padmé asks the same question twice. The second question is not just “Right?” https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/for-the-better-right
I have altered the meme. Pray I don’t alter it more.
Oh goodness, you’re very good at getting my goat.
“Pray I don’t alter it any further.” https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-am-altering-the-deal
Luke to Darth Vader “Anakin I am your son!”
Yes, that was part of the joke.
Memes are fair game in this wretched hive of scum and evilitude.
I’m not usually a stickler for adhering closely to meme “rules” but this one drives me batty. I never have the courage to correct folks though, so have your lemmy gold!
I’m honored! I’ll never have mutton chops like Kilmister’s, and I’ll gladly accept this honorary form of them instead.
Why is Lemmy gold an undead pirate. Not that I have a problem with it
Yeah, he was literally bragging about it on the quarterly earnings calls as it was happening. They’ve only paused the price gouging now that it’s a hot topic, don’t think for a minute prices will go back down or that this won’t resume in a year or so when there’s some other distraction available.
We need regulations to stop this predatory behavior, and we desperately need to break up monopolies like Kroger, if this problem is to be mitigated.
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For sure, literally starting people for money, how disgusting. Don’t execute them. Starve them to death. Like they did to their fellow Americans. Or better yet, their fellow humans.
so there’s already not enough competition in the grocery store market. Why is kroger being allowed to merge at this point?
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“There is not just one bad apple in this bunch,” Powers said, adding that most companies who engage in price gouging receive limited consequences.
Because customers generally still have choices to shop at other grocers like Walmart, Thompson said Kroger is unlikely to experience any severe consequences from the FTC.
Despite the fact that this is likely a larger problem in the grocery sector, Ryan said consumers could react swiftly with their wallets.
Yeah, and go to the next grocery store with the same prices and behind-the-scenes policies, and buy the same overprices eggs… But hey, at least they didn’t admit to the lie.
but don’t worry!, there will not be any negative consequences for him or his company!
And now his workers are on strike
They promise they won’t do it again.
The audacity we have to put this TiTAn oF iNdUStrY in a position he had to issue a promise
Hmmmm. Maybe, since all stores are doing this, we should just institute price fixing on certain goods? Oh but I forgot, that’d be bad for the corporation and their profits, and that’s obviously more important than citizens being able to afford groceries at a reasonable price.
For all of these companies trying to merge the default answer should be no. Merging companies isn’t good for capitalism at all in any way so if any company wants to merge they should have to get special permissions. This shit is out of control.
Agreed. I have no issues with capitalism but I have a huge issue with monopolies. Just buying out the competition isn’t competing.
One of the possibilities would be a cooperative chain. They don’t go for profit so can seriously undercut these price gougers.
Fuck Kroger
I wish I could pirate food.
I mean, they give you a speedy cart with wheels and everything…
Not anymore. They recently added those locks that lock up the wheels when they get too far away from the store. And they also threw out all the shopping baskets.
Is price gouging illegal?
Kamala is proposing making it illegal at the federal level.
And that’s why there is a portion of people who dislike Harris; they dislike anything.
Some jackass economist will pop in and say that there’s no such thing as price gouging. That prices are set by market demand. It is true to an extent, because if people weren’t buying things at those prices, then the store would lower the price. The problem with groceries is that there isn’t really a price discovery method for the average person unless they go to every possible store and price compare. It’s not like you can go online and find prices for every option and alternative for groceries. People just assumed that prices have gone up due to natural inflation, which isn’t the case here.
It’s supposed to be, but laws generally only kick in if there’s an emergency like an earthquake or hurricane.
Covid was a global emergency at one point.
Yup and the argument over if it qualifies or if they were doing it at the time is for the lawyers.
Oh good. Lawyers.
Right? My favorite. It’s not really something that’s enforceable on that level though. It would be easier to bring prices down by breaking up these large companies. And if that fails, just start a government grocery store that opens up in food deserts first, then in high cost of living areas. See what happens to prices when they need to justify people going there instead of the government store.
Depending on how the recenr precedent curtailing the agency of government agencies holds up, teams of lawyers presenting teams of scientists to judges with political agendas may become the norm.
Legally, criminalizing systemic food waste would be a good step.
I’ve always had a rule that all my decisions should be the ones that make my mother the most proud. Sometimes it’s a choice between two things she’d probably dislike (like getting a tattoo or a piercing), but I always do the thing that has the better chance of making her proud.
Recently I’ve started stealing from large evil corps. Not even gonna sugar coat it. I go to self checkout and just don’t scan things here or there. Whoops I left that thing in my cart. Whoops I left half of the bag of lemons off the scale and they rang up for 10c. Whoops, that eyeliner pencil fell into the unnecessary plastic wrap of that other thing and I didn’t scan it.
I recently mentioned this to my mum and she laughed. She was proud. Because fuck Kroger, fuck these companies gouging us, stealing our land and food and ability to sustain ourselves without giving them a cut. Fuck people who hoard money so hard that people fucking die because of it. Boycotting shitty companies is what makes mums proud.
If you see somebody stealing at a grocery store… no you didn’t.
I am very much against theft but if you are forced to check yourself out, I consider it wages.
I have no issues with mistakes happening in self check.
Literally starving people for money. If there is a hell, they will go there 100% what shitty humans… Must be psychotic narcissist. How else would you sleep at night?
