CBC New BrunswickMar 14
N.B. distillers say high markups limiting growth as support for local products surges
Devon Strang of Blue Roof Distillers says business is up since New Brunswick removed U.S.-made liquor from shelves, but steep markups imposed by N.B. Liquor are making it difficult to expand the company's business.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/alcohol-tariff-war-markups-9.7126326?cmp=rss
Tracy RosenbergApr 24, 2024
"The Appeal found #prison prices up to five times higher than in the community and #markups as high as 600 percent". https://theappeal.org/locked-in-priced-out-how-much-prison-commissary-prices/
Locked In, Priced Out: How Prison Commissary Price-Gouging Preys on the Incarcerated

The Appeal's 9-month investigation uncovered prison commissaries’ exploitative, inconsistent systems with inside prices up to five times higher than in the community and markups as high as 600 percent.

Show threadCory DoctorowJan 17, 2024

One way to measure that power is through #markups ("the difference between the selling price of goods or services and their cost"). Very large companies in concentrated industries have *very* high markups, and they're getting higher. From 2017-22, the 20 largest companies in the world had average markups of 50%. The 100 largest companies average 43%. The smallest half of companies get average markups of 25%.

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Coney von 1LandAug 18, 2023

#Arbeiterkammer Österreich

Die neuen Daten ermöglichen einen Rückblick auf die Entwicklung sozialer Ungleichheiten sowie eine evidenzbasierte Bewertung der Krisenpolitik...

#Ökonomie
#Unternehmen
#Wettbewerb
#Markups
#Konzentration
#Österreich
#COVID19
#Armut
#Einkommensungleichheit
#Vermögen
#Umverteilung
#Ungleichheit

https://journals.akwien.at/wug/issue/view/WUG_49_2

Bd. 49 Nr. 2 (2023) | Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft

Show threadReneeDec 31, 2022

#Bye-bye to these #wine #trends next year?

1. Wine #Advent Calendars (#canine Advent calendars have done better);
2. Terrible Tasting Notes;
3. ‘Natural Wine’;
4. Egregious Wine List #Markups;
5. Wine Educators;
6. Inflated Scores;
7. #Calamity.

#WSJ, #LettieTeague

https://www.wsj.com/articles/natural-wine-and-6-other-wine-trends-from-2022-wed-like-to-leave-behind-11672333201

Natural Wine and 6 Other Wine Trends From 2022 We’d Like to Leave Behind

Our wine columnist is looking ahead to the new year with optimism—and speaking plainly about the cringe-inducing wine trends she hopes to bid good riddance

The Wall Street Journal
Miss FidgetNov 25, 2022
Update #MissFidgetsCalendar - this summer trashed dusty inkjet printer so @lulz when #LaserPrinter stopped working during print production. #ColorCorrection is shrug and guess. May start hand addressing envelopes NOW. Will need to print letters that accompany calendars-uh, gotta #mimeograph? #Printing and #MarkUps big part of my #CreativeProcess so #Whee #TryNewStuff #OldPhoto
Tomaso DusoNov 18, 2022

The rise of passive investors increases #commonownership incentives which are linked to higher #markups. Wonderful paper by @abanalestanol, #JoSeldeslachts, and #XavierVives providing new theory and empirical evidence.

Link: https://bit.ly/3AqpZbM

#antitrust #DIW @industrialorganization

DIW Berlin: Ownership Diversification and Product Market Pricing Incentives

We link investor ownership to profit loads on rival firms by the managers of a firm. We propose a theory model in which we distinguish between passive and active investors’ holdings, where passive investors are relatively more diversified. We find that if passive investors become relatively bigger, then common ownership incentives increase. We show that these higher incentives, in turn, are linked ...

DIW Berlin
ITSEC NewsNov 10, 2020
Scalper-Bots Shake Down Desperate PS5, Xbox Series X Shoppers - Retail bots are helping scalpers scoop up PS5, Xbox Series X inventory and charge massive markups.... https://threatpost.com/scalper-bots-shake-down-desperate-ps5-xbox-series-x-shoppers/161090/ #playstationps5 #pre-orderxbox #pre-orderps5 #websecurity #xboxseriesx #resellers #scalpers #markups #launch #bots #ebay #iot
Scalper-Bots Shake Down Desperate PS5, Xbox Series X Shoppers

Retail bots are helping scalpers scoop up PS5, Xbox Series X inventory and charge massive markups.

Threatpost - English - Global - threatpost.com