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    Lebensmittelhändler sagen, dass sie durch den Milchpreisstopp in Manitoba unter Druck geraten – Winnipeg

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    1. jacnel45 on

      I don’t think grocers understand that, after the last few years of inflation, no one is feeling any particular sympathy for them? Like yeah this is an independent grocer group so maybe more people would care. However, independent grocers are usually just as bad as the major grocers.

    2. MrPantsyFlants on

      Grocers keep posting record profits. They make more than ever for the investor class. FUCK OFF grocery monopoly! We need affordable groceries, not record profits for the companies that sell the groceries. They are so tone deaf.

    3. ship_toaster on

      Grocers use vertically integrated supply chains to extract profit along each step of the food production/sale process, which allows them to truthfully claim their grocery stores have razor-thin margins while still raking in profits. The thing about milk though is that I don’t think it’s something they’re able to vertically integrate. Those supply chains have their own thing locked down, and the grocers receive milk already packaged for sale at whatever wholesale price the milk suppliers want to charge.

      It’s entirely plausible many of these stores just stop selling milk. The question will be whether they lose more money selling milk below cost or from the customers who go somewhere that *can* afford to sell milk below cost.

    4. ilovethemusic on

      Economics tells us that price ceilings lead to supply shortages. If it’s not advantageous for grocers to sell milk, some may stop selling it.

      That said, I always thought milk was a classic loss leader, so I don’t get why they don’t just raise the prices of everything else if they’re losing so much money on milk. If the price controls are only on milk that kind of seems like the obvious solution.

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