[Openurmind]

I’ll blow the whistle... I don’t care what the “private business cult” says. They just don’t want to admit to being greedy opportunists. I have been in business all my life and opportunistic collaborated price fixing and price gouging is absolutely real.

Especially now days when there are large corporate monopolies controlling certain links in the supply chain. I have seen it all my life. and even as a businessman I cannot defend the practices as “normal” or come up with other “excuses” to hide the pure greed.

Yes the economy is bad, costs to produce and deliver are up 50%, but that does not equal a 150% increase at retail, the extra 100% is tacked on as pure opportunistic greed through the supply chain.

[spirited irish]

Thank-you for your evaluation. Today’s globalists consist of immensely wealthy people who over time have bought control of all resources (gas, coal, electric, water, land, food, etc), technology, and most corporations. The order to destroy millions of chickens and turkeys came from higher up.

[HighSierra5]

There’s also portion shrinking and smaller packages.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Yes the economy is bad, costs to produce and deliver are up 50%, but that does not equal a 150% increase at retail, the extra 100% is tacked on as pure opportunistic greed through the supply chain.

In a free market, this cannot happen - competition will quickly crush the collaborating opportunists.

Under our fascist system, with government privilege extended to favored operators, such behavior is not uncommon. But only certain key players get to take advantage of it.

[nonliberal]

This.

[Tench_Coxe]

Maybe the media can hammer more articles like this. Then when it gets to a fever pitch, a prominent figure can say:

"now you know what a Value Added Tax looks like, except the money doesn't go into the pocket of a company providing a value or service, but the offshore accounts of people who produce nothing but pain and misery"

[Sequoyah101]

I too have seen it in spades. Businesses that will raise their prices 10% because the price of 10% of their costs went up 10%. They do it because they can and get away with it.

If you have a temporary demand or supply driven price spike, when it is over, prices hardly ever go back down. Stupidly I guess, since I have never held large enough share for impact, I opt out in the price spike and wait for moderation, you can't do that with food and some other things.

[lastchance]

Thanks for your honesty. Too few hands control access to too many goods. It seems this is not about small business owner’s trying to stay solvent and make a living. It is about draining the pockets of everyman to make them more dependent on government manipulations of the market, as well as putting more on government assistance.

[dragnet2]

: spirited irish
I’ll blow the whistle... I don’t care what the “private business cult” says. They just don’t want to admit to being greedy opportunists. I have been in business all my life and opportunistic collaborated price fixing and price gouging is absolutely real.

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100%

And those that say greed has nothing to do with it are lying.

[absalom01]

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

This article is nonsense.