Back when gas prices were climbing up to the four dollar mark, the big concern was that all other product would need to see a price increase due to the added costs of shipping and delivery. It happened as expected especially when it came to groceries at the local food stores, and it was actually understandable when you did the math. But then the price of gas dropped.
So why are we still paying an average person’s hourly wage for a pound of hamburg? Why didn’t the two dollar box of cereal come back when the cost of delivery went down? Or didn’t they think anyone would notice?
Is it too much of a bother to put store clerks to work retagging items to match the lower overhead? Or is this just another example of the consumer not mattering in the least to the big corporate greed machine? Let’s face it, if the overhead cost of producing and supplying a product drops, but the product cost remains the same or goes up even higher in some cases, doesn’t that mean someone is making a killing?
You know, stuff happens, and its understandable when viable reasons are given for price increases. But when those reasons are no longer a factor, it would also be understandable and expected to see it reflected in what those products cost the consumer.
There’s a reason for everything, folks. But if you give a reason then it should be the reason. And if that reason goes away, then its reasonable to expect the effects of that reason to go away as well.
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