SpookyFrank
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If consumers can drive costs down why isn't everything sold below cost price?
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If consumers can drive costs down why isn't everything sold below cost price?
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Milk represents quite a complex market with the retail corps, as the main buyers, operating as oligopsonists able to dictate their own (low) price based on a kinked demand curve enabling them to offer the product as a loss leader to be cross-subsidised by other, higher margin, lines.
Nonsense to say that consumers can drive down price; any A level student would know the only way to do that (ceteris paribus) would be for their total market demand to fall causing the d curve to shift lowering equilibrium price.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Driving to the next supermarket to save 1p on a gallon of milk.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
desperate times call for desperate measures
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
a "voluntary army" being called for at a time when the OBR forecast (just released) states a 35% contraction in GDP and 2 million unemployed, assuming a three month COVID lockdown.
Fuck that. Pay your workers, or fuck off, pick it yourself.
Fuck that. Pay your workers, or fuck off, pick it yourself.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
It’s not fair to say it’s consumers driving down prices but they do play a part in the mechanics, supermarkets rely on specific products to drive up footfall and make consumers buy other things and milk is one of them. One of the things they noticed early on was that if these products were priced to high customers would automatically go elsewhere.
As such they make a concentrated effort to keep them about the same price between them after many years pissing about competing with each other to undercut.
As such they make a concentrated effort to keep them about the same price between them after many years pissing about competing with each other to undercut.
Funky_monks
Neo-Rustic
Base price of milk 27ppl
Someones not short of a few bob
People can't afford to. I agree that people should be fighting for higher wages and better conditions though.
So you've had family exploiting animals. This explains alot regarding your attitude on the meat eater thread.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Why would you quote that one part of my post and disagree with it, when there was nothing to disagree with, because I actually said this:
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
No, I have had and still do have family looking after the needs of humans, you numpty.
Theres really no need to be such a twat
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Then don't do it.
The theory is that it helps one reduce ones meat intake - quality over quantity.
I shall be testing such theory in the near future as I don’t wish to give up meat as it is tasty and full of nutrients that a vegetarian diet lacks.
A most predictable post. Chill out bro.
I'd say you're not too bright. But we know that already.
A vegetarian diet can be (and very often is) shed-full of nutrients.
God, you need to relax mate. You're getting all worked up. Carry on like this and your gonna have a heart attack or something.
This is true but your wasting your breath on this one.
Marty doesn't even seem aware that a vegetarian diet still includes animal products and that even a properly planned vegan diet is not deficient in nutrients.
It was a general point from me.
I avoid directly quoting ot directly responding to 'that one' anyway.
Funky_monks
Neo-Rustic
So most vegans take supplements for no reason?
The supplements are part of the diet. Obviously.
Very wise
Even when they do (and I'm a veggie who takes multivits and flax-seed oil capsules), that doesn't mean that a veggie or vegan diet lacks nutritiousness.
8ball
1,200 lights
"Lacks nutritiousness" is a very wooly phrase. There really aren't many nutrients that your common-or-garden veggie is lacking though. And we're all pretty much deficient in vitamin D.
Which can be helped by getting out in the field and picking some veg.
Do you dispute the essential validity of my statement though?
(Bear in mind that in general, I avoid any militant or pushy postings in veggie/vegan threads)
But to break my rule and quote somebody, "full of nutrients that a vegetarian diet lacks" isn't any better.
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