09-13-2024, 09:51 AM
(09-13-2024, 09:39 AM)Protheroe Wrote:(09-13-2024, 02:20 AM)Berthe of a Nation Wrote: At least Harris has plans to try and stop the con of supermarkets and other businesses using inflation as an excuse for ripping off customers.
Here no one gives a fuck as the likes of Tesco make billions in profit with prices going through the roof.
A fucking windfall tax on these opportunistic cunts and energy companies would be better than wacking pensioners.
Supermarket margins are really tight in the UK. Prior to Covid food had never been cheaper in real terms. You can't blame businesses for maintaining margins when faced with the first inflationary event in a generation. There's plenty of price gouging going on in supplier markets at the moment - but not in food,
Sadly this is true. A nasty fact we don’t want to deal with as a nation is we have some of the cheapest food in Europe, are producing nowhere near as much as we consume and successive governments have been largely reluctant to deal with the problem. We take cheap food for granted but the poor end up eating largely processed poor quality food as a consequence. How we deal with this dilemma in the future will be a - as they say - nice problem.

