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Old 02-23-2023, 01:49 PM   #4605
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Originally Posted by peter12 View Post
Honestly, government should be doing something about this. Maybe not price controls but something.
Food for the most part is high volume low profit items.

There have been some interesting papers from Dalhousie on the subject.

But there's more then just the narrative of, those greedy grocers. There's transportation elements, food production costs. a loonie with weakened buying power. What items are profitable which are not.

I know that they're bringing in CEO's to the house, but I think that the answers to this are more then Capitalism bad, there's a huge combined element here.

And no, the last thing I want to see is government cost control. Or whatever without the government knowing what's going on.
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