Because corporations are monopolizing their markets, they don’t have to worry about competitors.
A few giant corporations can easily coordinate price hikes and enjoy bigger profits.
Just four firms control 85% of beef, 66% of pork, and 54% of poultry production.
Hello?
Nah. Putin is owned by, or brethren to, a few billionaire oligarchs. Russian? Internationals? Does it truly matter? Nobody gives up power willingly.
In some places the oligarchs are elected or selected. Borders and languages are fungible, and the history behind traditional colors is long forgotten.
@rbreich in their earlier days, stores like Whole Foods and Wild Oats sourced only from local or regional, independent farmers and ranchers. This is why it cost so much more to shop at Whole Foods than it did at Kroger or H‑E‑B or Randall’s, etc.
I don’t know if that’s still how Whole Foods operates, but people had the opportunity to put their money where their mouth was and most chose not to.
@rbreich I love corporations who decry government intervention in the market, saying let the market do its job, then do everything to distort the markets in their favour.
Capitalism is great, looking forward to when we start using it.
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Shades of embeded Internet Explorer.
Rare trip to the supermarket and saw a dozen very fine brown eggs for nine dollars. The suckers were rather large.
We have five hens living in a nice outbuilding at the rear of our residential lot in Anchorage. Used to be eight, but age and the odd cat. It's a dangerous world.
About four to eight eggs a week. Fresh.
Being an urban boy I had no call to know that hens, like primates and most other animalia, make eggs whether a rooster's around to fertilize them.
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