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Some of what the Pittsburgh terror brings up for me
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 741925" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Dear Tired: I think so much of what we buy in the store has prices completely unrelated to the cost to produce it. The prices are tied not to what are production and transportation and marketing costs, but to what the consumer can pay.</p><p></p><p>But oftentimes the opposite is true. Producers dump merchandise in order to keep prices high. It's crazy. They would rather give the stuff away, than dilute prices across the board. I buy a lot of my vegetables at the dollar store. This stuff is dumped there. If I go to the regular market what I buy for $1 is $4 to even $6. Same stuff. They dump produce at the dollar store in order to keep prices artificially high.</p><p></p><p>Even stores like Costco and Walmart tie their prices to the demographics of the communities in which they are located. If you ever shop on Walmart online they will not tell you the price of the products in the store. Why? Because they are different at different Walmarts. Richer communities have higher prices. I have seen this with my own eyes.</p><p></p><p>A few months ago I needed a postal scale (to try to weigh my sick cat--It did not work. Surprise. Surprise.) I looked online and saw there was one at the local office products store (a big chain like Office Depot.) The online price was $35. At the store it was $75. I was horrified.</p><p></p><p>How many times had I just bought an item in the store without price checking? I told the cashier and the manager gave me the online price. I asked: "what percent of the customers ask the online price, or ask for a discount?" He said: "Virtually nobody. They just pay the price."</p><p></p><p>I know I have veered off the topic, but this really galls me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 741925, member: 18958"] Dear Tired: I think so much of what we buy in the store has prices completely unrelated to the cost to produce it. The prices are tied not to what are production and transportation and marketing costs, but to what the consumer can pay. But oftentimes the opposite is true. Producers dump merchandise in order to keep prices high. It's crazy. They would rather give the stuff away, than dilute prices across the board. I buy a lot of my vegetables at the dollar store. This stuff is dumped there. If I go to the regular market what I buy for $1 is $4 to even $6. Same stuff. They dump produce at the dollar store in order to keep prices artificially high. Even stores like Costco and Walmart tie their prices to the demographics of the communities in which they are located. If you ever shop on Walmart online they will not tell you the price of the products in the store. Why? Because they are different at different Walmarts. Richer communities have higher prices. I have seen this with my own eyes. A few months ago I needed a postal scale (to try to weigh my sick cat--It did not work. Surprise. Surprise.) I looked online and saw there was one at the local office products store (a big chain like Office Depot.) The online price was $35. At the store it was $75. I was horrified. How many times had I just bought an item in the store without price checking? I told the cashier and the manager gave me the online price. I asked: "what percent of the customers ask the online price, or ask for a discount?" He said: "Virtually nobody. They just pay the price." I know I have veered off the topic, but this really galls me. [/QUOTE]
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