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dual_sport_dork ,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

Anakin and Padmé meme: So we’re going to fine them that amount, or force them to refund it to their customers, right?

Right?

borth ,

Consequences!!?? No, we’re just telling you about this shit we found.

cybervseas ,

To be pedantic, in the meme format (as in the original movie), Padmé asks the same question twice. The second question is not just “Right?” knowyourmeme.com/memes/for-the-better-right

SpaceNoodle ,

I have altered the meme. Pray I don’t alter it more.

cybervseas ,

Oh goodness, you’re very good at getting my goat.

“Pray I don’t alter it any further.” knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-am-altering-the-deal

Snailpope ,

Luke to Darth Vader “Anakin I am your son!”

SpaceNoodle ,

Yes, that was part of the joke.

octopus_ink ,

I’m not usually a stickler for adhering closely to meme “rules” but this one drives me batty. I never have the courage to correct folks though, so have your lemmy gold!

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/2fc14295-a0f4-426b-b06d-ccb92043f76a.png

cybervseas ,

I’m honored! I’ll never have mutton chops like Kilmister’s, and I’ll gladly accept this honorary form of them instead.

Worx ,

Why though, what did they do wrong? They’re allowed to set their prices how they like as long as they’re not coluding with competitors.

(I’m not saying it doesn’t suck, obviously, but they are just doing a capitalism)

SpaceNoodle ,

When you say “wrong,” what do you mean? Are you arguing that their actions are morally just, or merely not too illegal?

Worx ,

I’m questioning whether they did anything illegal. It’s quite obvious (to me, at least) that what they did is morally wrong

SpaceNoodle ,

“Wrong” is certainly the wrong word, then.

Price gouging does run counter to some states’ consumer protection laws.

Gingerlegs ,

Fuck Kroger

TheReturnOfPEB ,

outrageous!

Maybe i’ll travel to Canada to shop at a non-Kroger grocery store in boycott.

Hopefully Kroger will pay the government a fine and continue to gouge the rest of us.

avidamoeba ,
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

I got news for you.

borth ,

“There is not just one bad apple in this bunch,” Powers said, adding that most companies who engage in price gouging receive limited consequences.

Because customers generally still have choices to shop at other grocers like Walmart, Thompson said Kroger is unlikely to experience any severe consequences from the FTC.

Despite the fact that this is likely a larger problem in the grocery sector, Ryan said consumers could react swiftly with their wallets.

Yeah, and go to the next grocery store with the same prices and behind-the-scenes policies, and buy the same overprices eggs… But hey, at least they didn’t admit to the lie.

LovingHippieCat ,

Hmmmm. Maybe, since all stores are doing this, we should just institute price fixing on certain goods? Oh but I forgot, that’d be bad for the corporation and their profits, and that’s obviously more important than citizens being able to afford groceries at a reasonable price.

TommySoda ,

I wish I could pirate food.

drangus ,

Try farming

TommySoda ,

I live on the top floor of an apartment with no balcony. I wish I could pirate a house.

crusa187 ,

Yeah, he was literally bragging about it on the quarterly earnings calls as it was happening. They’ve only paused the price gouging now that it’s a hot topic, don’t think for a minute prices will go back down or that this won’t resume in a year or so when there’s some other distraction available.

We need regulations to stop this predatory behavior, and we desperately need to break up monopolies like Kroger, if this problem is to be mitigated.

Itsamelemmy ,

Why break them up when you can just let them get bigger. I’d bet my job the fucking merger is still happening.

RustyShackleford , (edited )

Of course it’s still happening, this is just a side puppet show to distract from that fact. Now they’ve realized most of the population would vote in an uneducated felon again, so they see they faked having a heart for nothing. Which was cutting into their profits all along.

Until there’s serious consequences and bankruptcy looming, they’ll continue shitting on us like we’re Japanese businessmen with a fetish.

anonymous111 ,

Is price gouging illegal?

HappyTimeHarry ,

only for the poors

criticon ,

I stopped getting my groceries at Kroger unless I need just a few items quickly (I have 2 less than 2 miles from my house). Most stuff is more expensive at Kroger than Meijer or even Walmart and if doing the whole list it ads a lot to my expenses

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