rbreich ,
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The FTC has confirmed what we suspected: During the pandemic supply chain disruptions, big grocery chains pressured food suppliers to favor them over smaller competitors and hiked food prices to rake in record profits.

Those prices have stayed high even as disruptions eased.

peribotsarah ,
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@rbreich remember, is not "record inflation" it's "record price gouging"

barryjsullivan ,

@rbreich This fits in perfectly with the book “The Shock Doctrine” by Naomi Klein.

Jaypee ,
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@rbreich
Links to source material?

dacig ,
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@rbreich Baltimore's bridge colapse is the next excuse to raise prices.

BarryCooke ,
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@rbreich Trudeau

itwasntme ,
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@rbreich When you say ‘pressured,’ you mean, placed them gagged and naked over a barrel and whipped them with chains, yeah?

trainman ,
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@rbreich Our "government" should have stepped in to correct this ripoff.

grammasaurus ,
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@rbreich No restraint at all on greed.

Alb_ ,
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@rbreich

Pandemicmongers !

DavBot ,
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@rbreich

Remember folks, next time you see someone shoplifting, no you didn't.

seanwithwords ,
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@rbreich the system systeming

dan131riley ,
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@rbreich Once upon a time, that would have been an anti-trust violation...

energisch_ ,
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@rbreich and it happened world-wide

davidcorbett ,
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@rbreich fine them as monopoly and price fixing and get the fines n reduced prices to help the masses not the rich

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