comment: >
  
  Maybe letting corporations endless merge wasn’t such a great idea after all.
context: "The real culprit behind this 138% hike in the price of a carton of eggs," says the letter, "appears to be a collusive scheme among industry leaders to turn inflationary conditions and an avian flu outbreak into an opportunity to extract egregious profits reaching as high as 40%."
  
  Nothing wrong with investigation of the facts. >
  
  It’s nothing that [checks notes] absolutely everyone [edit: in the US] hasn’t done, turning temporary Covid setbacks into rampant inflation, across the board. And is labor getting any of it? No. No they’re not. >
  
  Eggs in Canada are the same price as they've always been. >
  
  Not in BC. 7 bucks in Fraser Valley where we make the things >
  
  Safeway in Alberta has the most basic eggs for about $4 and up to $7 for the fancy ones, which is on par with usual prices. >
  
  XL eggs used to be less than $4 a year ago, and they are more than that here now. If I had to guess, eggs are up 20% or so in the last year. That’s still a far cry from what’s happening in the states, thankfully. >
  
  Record profits for egg companies who have supposedly lost a large percentage of birds to a flu.
  If their profits were the same or less, it’s believable.  But not record profits.
  Not hard to see the correlation. >
  
  It’s funny that companies keep making record profits off major events like the pandemic, and supply chain issues. Almost as if these things are just truths they can blame a price hike on. >
  
  Culture and consumer demand have changed.  One onion and 1 onion pre cut up are the same thing, except the pre cut onion comes with an added higher costs and profit margin
  
  We know trucks are more popular, and more profitable
  As Auto Companies are more profitable as they have phased out Cars
  
  Target has a 8% Profit Margin while Amazon and Walmart are at 4%
  Starbucks has a 15% Profit Margin,Chik Fil A is at 10%, while McDonalds is at 5%
  People have been spending more money overall and more of that money at high profit stores
  Shop only at Amazon, eat only food bought at Walmart made at home except when you go to Mcdonalds for a once a month meal, and drive a basic 4 door sedan and profit is pretty low >
  
  I'm sorry, I'm not really understanding the overall point here. >
  
  If 100 people 
  
  buy 1 Onion
  at $1 each
  And my Profit is $0.04 per onion I sell
  
  I made $100 in Sales and Profited $4. 
  
  Maybe even my best year as last year it was only 99 people
  
  
  If 100 people 
  
  buy 1 Onion
  But 20 of them buy the onion that is pre cut 
  1 Onion is still at $1 each, but the pre cut onion is $1.20
  And my Profit is $0.04 on the onion still 
  but the pre cut onion only cost me $0.05 to cut
  
  I made $104 in Sales and Profited $7. 
  
  I made record profits, even near doubled my profits.  All because people wanted a better product that was already in the store
  
  
  But of course this Year I even sold more, Retail Sales are way up 
  If 100 people 
  
  buy 1.1 Onion
  But 30 of them buy the onion that is pre cut 
  1 Onion is still at $1 each, but the pre cut onion is $1.20
  And my Profit is $0.04 on the onion still 
  but the pre cut onion only cost me $0.05 to cut. 
  
  I made $116 in Sales and Profited $8.90 
  
  I made record profits, even more than doubled my profits.  All because people wanted a better product that was already in the store >
  
  So... how does the concept of value added product apply to this discussion about eggs? Are you claiming the record profits are due to the egg companies selling a different product? >
  
  The response was to a comment on record profits not eggs
  
  It’s funny that companies keep making record profits off major events like the pandemic, and supply chain issues. Almost as if these things are just truths they can blame a price hike on. >
  
  So is your claim that the only reason companies are making record profits is because of a shift to value added products? >
  
  
  Fundamentally, Cal-Maine seems to be engaging in price leadership—using the avian flu outbreak and the inflationary conditions of the past year as cover to establish a new 'focal point' for egg prices."
  
  I suspected the new prices were here permanently. >
  
  First rule of acquisition.
  Once you get their money. never give it back. >
  
  The Grand Nagus would approve of American "capitalism". >
  
  Rom? HA! The Alliance fell apart when Zek took advice from a fe-male.
  When Ishka became Zek's companion, she influenced him in trying to turn Ferengi society into a more "tolerant one" that allowed "free commerce" and "women's rights". Her influence over Zek led to social reform and a Ferenginar that instituted democratic changes. Rom became the perfect choice for Nagus because he himself had never been a traditional Ferengi. Zek believed that he would be an excellent successor for the newly reformed Ferenginar. 
  Memory Alpha >
  
  How about every fucking industry?  Everything has increased since the pandemic just because they can increase the prices and pad their bottom line. >
  
  Unfortunately you’re asking them to look into campaign “contributors” at that point. Can’t have that now can we >
  
  Called it. I can’t believe they would call it a “shortage” when i see eggs fully stocked everywhere I go. It makes no sense. >
  
  yep my local store fills the shelf as fast as it empties  all day everyday shortage my ass >
  
  The GOP reduces the funding and authority of the FTC at every opportunity.  They can probably manage a strongly-worded letter at this point. >
  
  They pulled the same shit with the chicken wing shortage a couple of years ago. >
  
  yup when Pluckers started charging like an extra $.60 or whatever the fuck for chicken wing surcharges I stopped eating there. Haven’t been back since. I bake drumsticks now at home and save a ton of money >
  
  Lots of stuff going up in price just because "Well, they're going up everywhere." and people trying to jump on the bandwagon and also take advantage of it.