• ax-_-xa
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    210 months ago

    Aren’t they also losing customers? I don’t buy shit anymore. Won’t a lot of places eventually drive themselves out of business? A smaller, captive customer base with the wealth to choose differently if they feel like it. The vast majority just doing without whatever isn’t crucial.

    • @dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
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      410 months ago

      You can’t really stop buying food. There’s a reason that (say) a laptop costs the same now that it did in 1998 but eggs went from $2.50 a dozen to $8 a dozen in a few weeks with no actual change in supply or demand outside of a very brief constraint on shipping.

      • ax-_-xa
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        110 months ago

        Right, and when all we buy is food, many, many other businesses go poof. I’m not saying food isn’t expensive. I’m saying that’s all I buy anymore.