Kashana: Wild that they all, at the exact same time, suddenly came to the identical conclusion that they were uh, accidentally pricing food too high.

Wild that they all, at the exact same time, suddenly came to the identical conclusion that they were uh, accidentally pricing food too high.

"Mistake" fortune.com/2024/05/28/a...

Amazon, Walmart, and Target finally realize their colossal pricing mistake—now they’re slashing costs to win back customersfortune.com Retailers suffered from weak sales after hiking prices on customers.

"Retailers have suffered from weak sales due to customers’ struggle with high prices" is a heck of a sentence.

There’s passive voice, and then there’s running away from the active voice like your pants are on fire.

Prices have found themselves meandering steadily upwards, worrying customers and store owners alike. Following the decline in sales, some store owners are taking action to lower what some have called “unfairly high, exploitative prices”

"Silly prices, just wandering off, get back here! Sorry about that!"

That invisible hand making prices high on all of us, buyers and sellers, very annoying amiright

and *passive aggressive voice* was right there....

I had no idea our poverty was hurting them so much! Now I feel bad for those big corps. ):

They need you Joshua. Don't let them down.

I'm generally not big I'm calling for her Congressional hearings but when the entire nation's food supply is being manipulated I think maybe some people need to start answering.

Because you know if the Republicans do it with Black women in higher education we should do it with corporate CEO profiteers. Seems fair.

"oopsie! We accidentally conspired to gouge you!"

Kashana it was clearly the cabal of organized shoplifting that was a less than 1% occurrence. An epidemic they say

If it wasn’t for all those goddam nonexistent underwear thieves grapes wouldn’t cost $15!

Don’t forget the prophylactic piracy

Which was made worse by there business practices!

Yeah if you lock up all of the toothpaste, I’m going to rob you

First rule of Collusion Club is don’t talk about Collusion Club

the second rule of Collusion Club is that this email should have been an undiscoverable phone call

And fuck Target in particular bsky.app/profile/skno...

Welp that’s certainly a choice apnews.com/article/targ...

Target to reduce number of stores carrying Pride-themed merchandise after last year's backlashapnews.com Target confirmed that it won’t be carrying its LGBTQ+ merchandise for Pride month in June in some stores after the discount retailer received a backlash last year for its assortment.

Not going back there if it can be avoided

If only there was a term that was used in a legal sense to cover this behaviour, like price fixing.

I saw the recent announcements described as a method to fight inflation. Like inflation was just a thing that was happening TO them instead of a thing they were part of creating.

After spending years gaslighting everyone about "shoplifting rings" that were 100% made up.

Whoopsie doodle! Oopsdie doopsie! That's our gooferino, folks! A real - - [BLADE DESCENDS]

Odd too that this was right after SCOTUS upheld the existence of the CFPB

It's for damned sure they never 'accidentally' price it too low...

Adam Smith: 'People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publick, or in some contrivance to raise prices'.

And there they were all blaming Biden for it

"We weren't actually profiteering, we were merely trying to create shareholder value"

Must have been one helluva CEO hookup at one of those golf tournaments, or maybe all their kids graduated from the same “academy” “You gonna drop prices?” “Yea, man, are you?” “Yea, we are too. Did you get your cyber truck yet?”

“The identical collusion…err conclusion”

Prices were broken, so they fixed them. It's what capitalism does!

“Accidentally”

They finally noticed how much unsold food was rotting in storage or in store displays? Wow. 🤔

They merely tossed the rotten food at us poors at food banks. -Lived Experience

Love to go to a food bank and see all the moldy food that places like Trader Joe's donate. One time I went and they had a bunch of watermelons, and you could take as many as you wanted... because they were so soft that poking them was like poking a water balloon. 💀But we should be grateful, yeah?

whoopsy fucky!!!!

Listen, those executives could have been talking about anything in that room where they were eating sushi off a nude woman.

Accidental price fixing

I wonder if it’s because their pals in some industry or other that depends on disposable income started complaining about having fewer customers? Either that, or the threat of a big fat lawsuit.

What? The consumer has actual POWER? I thought all those massive stock buy-backs and CEO compensation packages were supposed to insulate Big Business (and the Billionaire White Boys' Club) from all that nonsense!

It's because the FTC is investigating grocery chains for price gouging

People used to riot and commit regicide over this kind of thing. Retvrn

Would love to see that group chat

Just a lil whoopsie!

Not kidding , our food bill is probably around double what it used to be.

Listen YOU have to spend money to make money (for us)

Wild wet bullshite

If only there were a major political party which could investigate this kind of collusion!

Remember when Biden wanted to pass price gouging restrictions during COVIDlock downs? McConnell prevented that!

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