Is this also in reference to the bazinga-powered on-site price gouging that’s starting to come into vogue in numerous grocery stores?

Opposing that makes you a communist. If that was so, that’d be a lot of new communists. sicko-wistful

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    Grocery stores operate on razor thin margins

    doubt

    Even if they are somebody in the supply chain most definitely isn’t operating on razor thin margins.

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      I heard the same bullshit about game corporations, the kind that use double-residency trickery to pay no taxes and then get a tax refund, such as Activision-Blizzard.

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      Despite operating on razor-thin margins they still make record profits after throwing out half their inventory every day

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      exactly, its financial engineering. that way they avoid paying taxes meanwhile their offshore companies get insane margins.