Our supermarkets have been caught price gouging again. It's impossible to export top-grade locally-produced food all the way to Japan and for it to end-up far cheaper. The government needs to step-in to stop this price gouging.
The government also needs to give back power to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. After years of undermining and by the successive RWNJ governments and nepotistic placements of their own pro-big-business colleagues high-up in the ACCC, the ACCC has been rendered toothless. We need the ACCC to be an independent umpire again.
Before the pandemic a 1/2 sandwich at Pret A Manger was $4.00. Now they are $8.00. A whole sandwich can be as much as $14. For a fucking sandwich!! This is blatant price gouging and it's happening on every item across the board at every company. This is why people think inflation is bad. The increase in wages don't even start to cover this. I have noticed major increases at restaurants too. Minimum 30% increase across the board from even last year. #pricegouging#fakeinflation
Dining out has gotten ridiculous. We’ve cut way back, but last night we took our daughter out to dinner… two grilled salmon sandwiches that were mostly bread and an ahi rice bowl that was mostly rice, $96. Add a 20% wage adjustment for our server and we were at $115. Add 3 drinks and we were at $170.
If the #Biden Admin gets gas prices back down, and goes after companies that raised prices due to the #SupplyChainCrisis but never brought them back down once it was over (as soon as they figured out what people were willing to pay)... he'll win in a landslide.
Incumbents lose when gas prices are high. Every time.
"Today, The Appeal published Locked In, Priced Out, a project that includes a first-of-its-kind database of prison commissary lists from 46 states. This project also examines the availability, prices, and markups of products across several categories, including food, hygiene, and religious items."
"Inflation is not about the dude at Arby's who got a 50 cent raise 3 months ago or a $1400 check 3 years ago. It's about corporations making record profits by ripping-off Americans so CEOs can spend trillions on stock buybacks & dividends. It's about corporate greed, boss."
~ Warren Gunnels, re: Kathy Jones saying, "Corporate profits rose to a new all time high in Q4
of 2023"
"General Mills just paid a $300 million dividend to investors, bought back $150 million in stock to enrich execs and investors and pays its CEO $16 million. It makes 2.1 billion a year in profit.
It is raising prices on cereals 20% and blaming 'inflation.'"
"Why are we talking about whether paying fast food workers a better wage will drive up the cost of a Big Mac instead of asking how much
McDonald's CEO's $17.8M
salary is driving up the cost?"
A new company took over my apartment complex three months ago.
They hadn't set up a website to pay our rent online the first two months, so we had to pay by Money Order or Cashier's Check (no personal checks) which cost money.
They just released their new "Rent Pay" website. To pay my rent online using a credit card, they want to charge me A $27.44 CONVENIENCE FEE! 😱
They can't legally raise our rent, so they keep finding new ways to nickle & dime us to death. #PriceGouging#HighwayRobbery