Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:33:39 -0500
Reply-To: Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
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From: Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
Subject: Re: Friday..OT..Stuff from WalMart-like stores...
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Having been in business for many years now, I can tell you that it's much more complex than your example. Businesses run on cash flow and thrive on profits and without either you have no business.
It would be nice if Kroger could sell a gallon of ice cream for $1.95 for ever and ever but it don't work that way. Many of these businesses run on long term net profits of pennies on the dollar and a small supply side change or a small labor cost change, or even a small delivery cost change can flip a business from profitable to non-profitable.
The small things you see - the consumer volume size changes - are businesses reacting to thousands of changes in the background, all leading to the prices you see on the grocery shelves!
And what does your US rep have to do with this, other than lobby for more taxes and write more regulations & laws? Which BTW also have an impact on business costs and the prices on your local grocery shelves!
Thanks, Tom Hargrave
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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of David Bjorkman
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 11:33 AM
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Subject: Re: Friday..OT..Stuff from WalMart-like stores...
It's the same with butter, ice cream, lots of consumer stuff. Drop the quantity, don't advertise it, and keep the price the same or raise it. Corporations make lots of money and the consumer gets "Chiseled".
Not enough people notice, or are too tired from working to keep up, to mount a protest, and then it becomes business as usual.
If you get pissed enough, call your US rep. If they don't listen, tell folks around you and show your displeasure in the voting booth. More of that needs to be done.
Now excuse me while I step off this soapbox (hope most of you know what that means ;-)
Dave B.
> On Apr 17, 2015, at 8:06 AM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> I recently bought a plastic tarp from one of the local Big Box junk
> stores... I'm re-doing the roof shelter on a pair of chain link dog
> kennels...
>
> So the space I wanted to shade and shelter is 12' x 8'...and it is
> quite windy around here. I measured carefully and exactly, planning to
> use the doubled-edges and perimeter grommets of the tarp to help keep
> it mounted to some 2 x 4 'rafters'... I finished the framing and
> unfold the tarp, brand new out of the package, the tarp that was
> branded " !2' x 8' " only to see, in a few seconds, that the tarp is
> NOT actually 12 x 8'....it is actually 11'6" x 7'6".....then I see on
> the label in the package, way down on the last line, in small print..."not actual finished size".....
>
> My father called people who engaged in these kinds of sleazy business
> practices "Chislers"....The world seems to accept this type of
> behavior with the simple shrugging off of the basic principal of
> honesty..."It's just Business" seems to be totally acceptable as an
> excuse to screw over everyone else....I really hate that phrase.
>
> So if you go buy a plastic tarp, make certain you aren't getting
> screwed out of a couple of inches all around...I guess the DOW
> chemical company, or whoever makes those tarps, figured that by
> cheating everyone who buys all those they would make a few million
> more $, world-wide, by lying about the size....
>
> Chislers....My Dad hated them...and so do I..
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