"Old" Europe; The FIRST To Engage OUT-OF-CONTROL GREED!!!!!

[Phoenix68]

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This is sounding awfully progressive....for a region designated "Old Europe", for much-too-long.
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French Supermarket Carrefour Pulls Pepsi From Shelves Over Rising Prices
January 5, 2024
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"Carrefour, one of France’s biggest supermarket chains, will stop selling PepsiCo products because they have become too expensive, in the latest clash between retailers and their suppliers over prices.

Stores are displaying a note alongside Pepsi, Lay’s chips, Quaker cereals and Lipton teas, among other products, that reads: “We are no longer selling this brand due to unacceptable price increases. We apologize for any inconvenience caused,” CNN affiliate BFM-TV reported.

Once the products sell out, they will not be replaced on shelves."
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[LittleGreenMan]

They're not letting their customers vote for what they want with their pocketbook. The decision is strange on its face. What kind of business takes something out of the customer's hands and tells them, "You can't have that, -it's too expensive for you."? There are in fact quite a few items in my grocery store that I just walk past because I know if I can afford it, or not. I don't need help there. Someone gonna follow me home ask, "Can I see your pantry? Any Fritos in there? What's behind that door? Is that your cookie jar?" There's a CEO who needs to be thrown out the window... let's hope the building is high enough to preclude his crawling back in thru an open door.

 

[Phoenix68]

They're not letting their customers vote for what they want with their pocketbook.

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Of course, they are....they're telling customers "If you want to get raped by unnecessarily high prices....take your pocketbook somewhere else."
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[mark francis]

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This is sounding awfully progressive....for a region designated "Old Europe", for much-too-long.
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French Supermarket Carrefour Pulls Pepsi From Shelves Over Rising Prices
January 5, 2024
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"Carrefour, one of France’s biggest supermarket chains, will stop selling PepsiCo products because they have become too expensive, in the latest clash between retailers and their suppliers over prices.

Stores are displaying a note alongside Pepsi, Lay’s chips, Quaker cereals and Lipton teas, among other products, that reads: “We are no longer selling this brand due to unacceptable price increases. We apologize for any inconvenience caused,” CNN affiliate BFM-TV reported.

Once the products sell out, they will not be replaced on shelves."
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As world governments turn more Marxist in keeping with the WEF new world order agenda, citizens under the fascist oppression of the increasingly Marxist regimes will find more shortages and less freedom and prosperity because that is what communism and socialism has to offer.

 

[LittleGreenMan]

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Of course, they are....they're telling customers "If you want to get raped by unnecessarily high prices....take your pocketbook somewhere else."
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A sharp competitor would have all their ads lead with Pepsi products to steal away shoppers. Most people who want those products will just shift all their shopping to where they can get most or all of their groceries. That business is a low-margin endeavor that requires high volumes. The business you drive to your competition helps them at the same time it hurts you. This is similar to the Bud Light thing. I would point out that most business don't make a profit on the first ~85% of capacity (revenue), they need that level to cover labor and fixed overhead & legacy costs, -the kinds of costs that go on even when the doors are closed,. Below ~66% they go bankrupt almost overnight. All these waypoints illustrate that the last ~15% is where all the profit is. That’s where all the operating expenses are paid for by that first 85% and your only expenses are for the products you buy to sell so all the margin goes straight into your pocket. A single % gain in that portion of sales, say from 95% to 96% looms huge in profit. Remember, you don’t clear a dime below ~85%. The % of capacity varies from industry to industry as do the margins % (profits). They are real close between competitors within a given industry. Losing a grocery customer means losing one family shopper 52 to 60 trips a year. That’s a big deal if you add a multiplier like snack foods which have a higher margin. You are driving away a premium customer. Dumb, in spades.

The grocery chain, Carrefour is between a rock and a hard place responding to a French government demand to control prices by Jan. 31st. These are the same ilk driving Dutch farmers, -THE most efficient farmers in the world, out of farming and returning their land to ~nature~. Remember what happened in 2022 in Sri Lanka in the first, one, single year following the banning of chemical fertilizers? Mass family farm output shortfalls causing food shortages and starvation. The politically correct government thought they could kill two birds with one stone, reduce dependence upon foreign oil, and foreign exchange outflows by cutting off chemical imports, but didn't understand the yang that corresponded to the yin. The green revolution we enjoy is chemical in nature, and based upon fossil fuels and mining. Also, municipal sewage & water systems can't exist without chlorine. Switching to “natural” fertilizers in Sri Lanka and the EU sounds greenie weenie utopian, but in reality is closer to Antoinette Macron declaring, “Fritos? Non. Let them eat shit”. Do they still have the guillotine in France?