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Originally Posted by TBS
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you are doing it wrongQuote:
Originally Posted by TBS
You have to dumb it down for TGR.Quote:
Originally Posted by PNWbrit
YMMV but I find it easier to have a (very) little respect for a scum sucking dirt bag carpenter developer who takes what he wants
than some dirtbag who thinks the world owes him a living
man
Guess I forgot to mention the cameras over the self.checkout lanes that watch for this very tactic.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
And yes most shoplifters never go thru the checkout line.
That ^^ IS the thing you don't know what they are looking for and what they see
today i was remembring a safeway in small town where i'm talking to a staff member, he points at an old lady and matter of factly tells me " that's mark-down-Mary, she steal food "
WTF sez I, do you call the cops ?
" well she is from the old folks home and she she doesn't steal much, just comes in every morning eats some produce and leaves "
they see everything and they see nothing cuz I had a manager once claim I hadnt been there, but he had walked by me a bunch times when i had a till completely torn apart wondering wtf i was gona do but he couldn't see me and somehow i was actualy pretty good at being invisible, I got it back together and GTF out of there eh
One grocery store I shop at frequently has resorted to checking everyone's receipt before they leave the store a la Costco. The amount of product that just walks out in Seattle has got to be staggering. I'd bet shoplifting has a small but not negligible affect on the price of groceries.
Yup. Like he wanted to wear a suit base on a tartan pattern. From the 60’s. But always a smile and kind word. Dad was working an odd job at expo86 on those little ferries, and needed a ride back to his car, Jimmy pulled up and gave him a lift.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
This is Robin Hood in reverse, shareholders’ profits coming straight out of consumer wallets. It is not a new phenomenon. In the 18th century, Adam Smith observed, “Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price… They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/errolsc...azy-after-all/
What are you? 8 years old?Quote:
Originally Posted by Buzzworthy
They are stealing from us. click on the links.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mustonen
More from the Forbes article I linked above.
But consumers know something is rotten.
They check their receipts. They talk. They post online. They shop around. They know they are being ripped off. Despite the stream of misinformation from trade associations, industry analysts and economists, price gouging bans are supported by upwards of 80% of voters.
Price gouging was not in the abstract. It took food off of children’s plates and has made grocery shopping a Sophie’s choice of what families can afford. It is no wonder that despite expanded USDA efforts, food insecurity is still very high, affecting 27% of adults, and hunger affecting over 44 million people.
Do you now realize how stupid you sounded? My answer was just icing on your cake.Quote:
Originally Posted by raisingarizona13
Right.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Buzzworthy
Point taken. Thanks, Kamala.Quote:
Originally Posted by raisingarizona13
I can't imagine anything more stupid sounding than defending big corporate bullies that are stealing from the working class people of our country.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buzzworthy
You sound like a....what is it that many say on these forums? Ah yes, a bootlicker.
Buzzworthy be like...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9ck16owdr4
round two is shaping up nicely…
fact.
Another troll. Bye.
So, calling someone a fucking moron=ok, calling them a pussy=fighting words? Just trying to understand the scoring system here.
Pretty sure that Buzz is about 60Quote:
Originally Posted by raisingarizona13
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Nah - vote the other side in. They'll remove all the pesky regulations and the free market will solve this issue!Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
Oh, wait. :rolleyes:
breakage is a couple %. Big effect on margins, not so big on prices, but not uniform probably because shoplifting isn’t.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Does the store have self checkouts? Persistent problem has been people re sku-ing goods and ringing up, say, filet mignon as round steak or what have you.
long, long, ago for a week or two the Fred Meyer self checks had a software error that meant anything you scanned after alcohol, but before a dob was entered by the self check clerk, wasn’t counted in your order total but was counted as a correct weight. So you could walk out the door with a bunch of stuff.
well since you seem to be asking the difference as i see it is by walking into their establishment they are allowed to charge you the prices advertised on the shelvesQuote:
Originally Posted by raisingarizona13
you on the other hand could get busted shoplifting, run out to the p-lot, get in your unregistered unlicensed uninsured junker K-car, assuming it starts to lead the cops on a merry chase crashing into a convienence store where you take everyone hostage with an unregistered handgun and thro the bodies out 1 every hr
seen it last month on netflix
The lowly pricing clerk is usually smarter but doesnt make anymore coin they can really fuck things up on-massQuote:
Originally Posted by dunfree
Well shit that's extreme :DQuote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Is there a difference between the consumer who struggles to get ahead and occasionally gets something for free when they could have paid for it, and the consumer who has plenty of cash to spare?
I can sympathize more with someone who's trying to stay alive than someone who's just sticking it to the man, cuz' the opportunity arose.
And I'm nobody's Rose. Believe me I've stolen some shit in my life. Never felonious but same as lotsa acute kids. (We called it sport theft in college. I'm ashamed of that mindset but it was part of my learnin'.)
But not for a long time now. I began to feel like my disdain for others' profiteering, was hijacking my own karma.
I felt I was getting what was coming to me for shafting someone else. Even if they had it comin, imo.
I figure I've got enough bullshit in my life that I don't need to potentially exacerbate it by challenging my otherwise good karma.
That's my rule for other people...They got enough BS going on without me adding to it.
And yeah, we do call people Pussy around here. In my experience, it's for peeps who say shit to you that they would seriously debate saying in real life.
I didn't read all into that, but itsa thing. Moron is an all inclusive term, Pussy - very specific.
Besides, TGR has it's own in-house Pussy.
How the fuck is she ever going to achieve this? Kamala (and the people who put this in her ear) don't understand markets and supply chains. Once the grocery lobby starts handing out checks this will become a non issue in Washington. Just like prescription prices and health care. Lots of noise and no signal coming out of Washington.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
My take is that voters are upset about grocery prices even though grocery prices have been flat for a while now, so there’s not much that needs to be done.Quote:
Originally Posted by halliday
But she needs to throw the voters a bone, and this is the bone.
It would only apply to gouging in times of emergency, and as stated in the article, the majority of states already have some form of law like this on the books.
She just has to say stuff that will get her elected
Prescription prices for insulin for example? Ozempic has had the warning shot too. Medicare negotiations for Eliquis, Jardiance, Xarelto, Januvia, Farxiga, Entresto, Enbrel, Imbruvica, Stelara, and NovoLog/Fiasp.Quote:
Originally Posted by halliday
It has already started happening for prescription drugs for a while now.
Canada now has a dentaL and drug plan because it was the only way the PM could stay in power
Yep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
And the Biden/Harris administration FTC has been increasingly active in antitrust enforcement.
Only for you old farts (basic dental has always been there for those on welfare). Working class is still paying through the nose (or root canal I suppose).Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Poor Justin just can’t buy a vote. Not with a pipeline, not with healthcare. Shame the alternative is no better. Come on US, show us how it’s done better!
I support anti-gouging sentiments. Not a laissez-faire capitalist.
Well, that's politickin, ain't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Hey, in the world I grew up in shit just falls off a truck every now and then......fuhgettaboutit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Djongo Unchained
I have friends who spend $$$$ on insulin every year and I know there are people out there in TV land who havent been to a dentist in many years so the only reason Canadians who really needed these programs got them is that Jagmeet propped up the liberals by holding JT's feet to the fire which probably doesn't make any sense to our American cousinsQuote:
Originally Posted by BCMtnHound
back in the day Pierre would have gone for his famous walk in the snow all alone with no security and decided fuck this, but it ain't cold enough to snow and its too dangerous to be out alone in Ottawa
edit: and maybe JT is a dumb ass
once again I make too much money & live too well, which is why ski bro refers to us as " skiing gentleman " so I have the extended HC plan and my mouth is full of teeth repaired by the mother corp
We refer to that as “skid luxury” around hereQuote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Yeahhhh…Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
I’m on Medicare. I take Jardiance. Thanks to the Administration’s effort, it now only costs $200 per month in the USA.
I get mine from Turkey, thru a pharmacy in “Beautiful Vancouver BC”. Cost is $145 for a three-month supply. It takes five weeks to ship so you have to pay attention but I can do that to save $2k per year.