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It never ends. Price hikes, shrinkflation, reducing employees until there’s only a couple in the whole store, self checkout, replacing customer service with bug
by janalsncm 3y ago
It never ends. Price hikes, shrinkflation, reducing employees until there’s only a couple in the whole store, self checkout, replacing customer service with buggy chatbots, service fees, taxes, pandemic surcharges, mandatory “tips”, suggested tips (up to 30% at the kiosk yesterday!) junk fees and now surge pricing. Consumers are slowly drowning in charges and it seems like rather than correcting for gouging, the free market seems to be colluding.
- kibwen 3y ago> the free market seems to be colluding Markets are just machines that respond to incentives. In the absence of regulation, the only incentive of the market is profit. What you're observing is that just because a market is efficient at seeking a profit, it doesn't mean it does anything good for society at large.
- EchoChamberMan 3y agoThere is also actual collusion, for instance, between kroger and albertsons: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/bombshell-potential-criminal-activity https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/bombshell-potential-crimi...