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Biden adviser calls for grocery chains to bring down their profit margins, as elevated prices still sting [No, this is not satire]
Morningstar ^ | 02/15/24 | Victor Reklaitis

Posted on 02/15/2024 9:03:36 AM PST by Eccl 10:2

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To: Texas resident

BIDEN going after “Dollar stores” for NOT having MEAT & FRESH PRODUCE.

There is NO reason for them to do so.

The ‘Convenience stores’ at the gas stations do not have those items, either.

Another example of Biden interfering with a system that works.


61 posted on 02/15/2024 10:36:19 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Eccl 10:2

In an interview with a Soviet man in the late 1980s I remember him saying about our American production and trucking and shipping methods to retail stores “your government distribution system here is much more efficient than ours.”

The Left is planning to have that system forced onto America now. “You will own nothing and like it.” And a mangled supply chain will supply our potatoes and gruel for use to wait in line to receive.


62 posted on 02/15/2024 10:36:49 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: circlecity
I have always heard that grocery stores operate at a 1-2% profit margin.

Two different things.

[quote] What Is the Difference Between Net Profit and Margin? Net profit is the dollar figure that shows the profit that remains after subtracting the cost of goods sold, operating expenses, taxes, and interest on debt. Margin is a percentage that shows profit compared to revenue.[/quote]

63 posted on 02/15/2024 11:07:40 AM PST by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and ygiveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: Eccl 10:2

“Grocery prices, they are important to people because they pay those prices every week,”

This dude is a genius.


64 posted on 02/15/2024 11:23:16 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: FlyingEagle

This dude is a genius.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Kamala Harris is her speechwriter.


65 posted on 02/15/2024 11:24:33 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Eccl 10:2
What next.....Wage control?

Rent control?

TOTAL control????

66 posted on 02/15/2024 11:27:02 AM PST by Osage Orange (I miss Rush)
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To: Eccl 10:2

Jimmy Carter wage and price controls.
Because it worked so well in the past.


67 posted on 02/15/2024 11:31:17 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Zathras

I thought Nixon was the Wage and Price Control guy.


68 posted on 02/15/2024 11:32:07 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Eccl 10:2

The “Biden Measurement Standard” is in full effect. A pound is now 12 ounces. A dozen is now 10.


69 posted on 02/15/2024 11:32:24 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eye)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Liberals love jobs when it’s the government creating them, as in the “Shovel Ready Jobs’’ boondoddgle.


70 posted on 02/15/2024 11:35:23 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Eccl 10:2

Grocery business had always very low profitability.
There is huge competition.
The grocers make money on volume.
They make small profit on big volume, so they can stay in business.
But that means, they really would have very hard time lowering prices even more and still staying in business.


71 posted on 02/15/2024 11:37:57 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: circlecity

Grocery usually spend about 60-70% on the merchandize, about 30+% on workers and facilities and they get away with the 1-3% profit. If they have to follow Biden, they would have to
1. laid off many workers and lower the facilities quality etc.
2. somehow force the suppliers to lower their prices.
3. go out of business

Let’s ask Brandon, which of those he prefers.


72 posted on 02/15/2024 11:44:48 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: AZJeep

I’ve noticed that in the last 10-15 years stores have cut the amount of workers significantly.


73 posted on 02/15/2024 11:50:12 AM PST by circlecity
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To: ridesthemiles

Maybe this could be the gross profit?
Retailers usually rise the price of merchandize they receive by about a third. But almost all that money covers their expenses like work force (by far the biggest expense!), advertisements, shrink, distribution and facilities.
The net profit is minuscular.


74 posted on 02/15/2024 11:51:10 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: circlecity

Yes, this is the best way of cutting costs. Especially when minimum wages are skyrocketing.
Retail was always a great starting place to get some job, if you lacked any particular skill.
Democrats are making sure that may not be the case in the future.


75 posted on 02/15/2024 11:57:21 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: Eccl 10:2

Price controls...
Where have I heard that before?
Back in the ‘70’s?
Jimmah cahtah?


76 posted on 02/15/2024 11:57:55 AM PST by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: Eccl 10:2

Off the shelf medicine, increased 58% over the last 3 years.

Was $11:94, then $14.94, then $17.94, and today, $18.9.


77 posted on 02/15/2024 12:10:46 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

That is one thing that is going away here in Kansas, sales tax on groceries. Amazingly enough, it was proposed, passed and signed into law by our Democrat Governor, Laura Kelly.


78 posted on 02/15/2024 12:13:22 PM PST by kawhill (kawhill)
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To: jmacusa

You mean invisible jobs.


79 posted on 02/15/2024 12:17:22 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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To: Eccl 10:2

This is what Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela which let to massive food shortages and people eating the animals in the zoos.

Biden is Hugo 2.0


80 posted on 02/15/2024 12:18:19 PM PST by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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