Welcome to 2024...where everyone seems to be just increasing the prices of what they're selling to whatever level customers will pay.
Think the olives cost too much unreasonably, think that price-gouging is going on, ...don't buy them.
Leave them on the shelf.
If enough people leave them on the shelf, the price-gouging will stop.
Article in my paper today, blueberries costing $14 ... readers commenting, complaining.
One guy said "blueberries for $14?...no thank you, I'll stick with my Coke and chocolate"!!!
It's everywhere, especially in my supermarkets.
Average Joe is *bleeding* in bambuworld.
American style homelessness is appearing.
Housing and rents unaffordable for an increasing number.
Leftist govts' massive immigration is much of the cause.
I believe team bambu will never be homeless, but who knows what the future holds. Average Joe is going backwards, prices of just about everything increasing much higher than the rate of inflation and the amount of wage and pension increases.
You are right of course, if we refuse to pay the high prices and let the goods sit on the shelves then the prices will come down.
But, at the same time we have masses of homeless people coming to the USA looking for work, and the Bible says that if a man does not work then neither should he eat, Mexicans are taught to work hard. Our immigrants from our Southern Border can all be growing food in order to keep the prices low on food, we can have a high supply to keep the prices low. Like with the California wine from Modesto, I am getting it for $4 per bottle, and I bet it costs twice that in Montana or in Wyoming. California wine is probably a lot more expensive in New York than it is here in California.
But yes, I had to quit eating eggs because of the high price of eggs. I used to love omelettes, and steak and eggs, and scrambled eggs with Chorizo, etc, but all too expensive now because of high egg prices. The refugees need to raise chickens for eggs to bring down the price of eggs. And the homeless hippies can have communes where they can raise chickens for eggs, etc, to bring down the price of eggs. The Future Farmers of America can teach people how to raise chickens for eggs, and how to raise cows for milk to make cheese, etc. And we need to put all of those refugees to work growing food, etc, to bring down the prices, and if we have surpluses then we can make money by exporting food to China, etc.
Salute,
Tony V.
Not too sure importing masses of homeless people from all over the world is the way to go.
When China invades Taiwan then Australia it will be exporting cheap eggs to you. Australia will be a manufacturing heaven for China...favourable weather, infrastructure already in place, China will turn world manufacturing on its head. Chinese cars etc will be so cheap America's car industry and *all* other manufacturing will be no more.
Chinese SUVs and commercial vehicles are now well made, long warranties...they're improving all the time...are flooding into Australia.
People and businesses are buying them because they're cheap, are warrantied for a long time and the servicing costs are low.