Colgate-Palmolive, which controls 40% of the toothpaste market, has increased prices 12% even as volume declined by 2%. As a result, the company's profits have soared.
Greed and market concentration are driving inflation, not workers demanding better wages and benefits.
So there’s this Lake.
(Lake Michigan from the far north side of Chicago)
'Photo of the year'
From Janey Godley on another platform.
Red shading shows regions where the average temperature (so far this year) is at/near a record high.
There is just a tiny bit of blue - see if you can find it 🥴
➡️ Check out the Berkeley Earth March report at https://berkeleyearth.org/march-2023-temperature-update/.