Grocery stores are not controlled by one monopoly. However, a few players control a large swathe of the market. And some areas are
No, I'm sure it was St. John Vianny.
Yes, I know what I wrote.
That's a big 10-4. A bonafide NSS. Brilliant response.
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"Seems to be"?
Not true. Large companies clearly compete with one and another. Not just on prices but also market share, profitability, strategies, and locations. If there really was a monopolistic advantage then large caps stock would run circles around mid and small caps stocks. Large companies have an economy of scale where they can remove redundancies and operate more efficiently. Suppliers love large companies and cut them breaks because they get large orders and they're guaranteed to get paid. These advantages produce savings that are rolled into providing the customer a more positive experience. Consumers prefer large companies because they have a good consistent product and they have a easy to reach customer service depart that will solve problems and honor their warranty. Because of this consumers will pay more for a name brand product vs. a store brand. People confuse willingness to pay more for what they perceive is a superior product with price fixing.
. Instead, a State Monopoly fulfills this function.
No, St John does is not the dominant provider of K-12 education in this country
Indeed and so there is no need to worry that our grocery system is anything close to a monopoly. Instead, people (including Harris) are trying to reason backwards to a preferred solution.
Indeed you can't (well, I suppose that you could if the candidate was running on a platform that incited people to go out and kill anyone who was potentially likely to theoretically have some probability of either [1] NOT being of the "approved" race or religion, or [2] NOT wanting the candidate to be elected and then to stay in power for life while turning the entire economy of the country over to a foreign power and revoking America's status as an independent and sovereign nation such that it became the possession of a foreign government).
From the point of view of the owning class, a "functioning market system" is one which produces the maximum amount of profit for the minimum amount of work and with the minimum amount of risk. The "Company Store" of coal mining town fame is an almost perfect example of that, no competition, no control over prices, and almost 100% certainty of payment of the customers' accounts REGARDLESS of whether or not the customer had some other "so-called 'need'" for the money (you know, like paying for medical care or medicine).
I'm going to step WAY out on a limb here and say that the middle one of those three people has SERIOUS psycho-social problems.No, I'm sure it was St. John Vianny.
Yes, I know what I wrote.
That's a big 10-4. A bonafide NSS. Brilliant response.
This doesn't answer the question, and again seeks to avoid it.
Lookie here. A stagecoach robbery. In 2024?
3 arrests in alleged Stagecoach robbery; two main suspects still sought
The sheriff’s office arrested three people on suspicion of robbery conspiracy but is still looking for the two who allegedly committed the robbery.
Josip Tito's government had an interesting approach to the issue.
Look at the gas stations in your community. Do you ever see more than a few cents, if any, per gallon difference in their prices. Do I have proof they are in collusion no, but there certainly "seems" to be collusion. That is because there were once more than 30 gas producers in this country and now there are three or four and that is because our government allowed the big fish to eat the little fish and now, we have no real competition in that market. So, although there is not just one company holding a monopoly in the provision of gas in this country, there is a monopoly of the many.
Those gas stations almost all get their gas from the same refinery. There used to be "competing refineries" but those were excess to the need for production and the number (and distribution) of refineries in the country was "rationalized". So, if ARCO, Phillips, BP, EXXON, and Chevron all buy their gasoline from the same producer at the same price, are all subject to the same state and federal taxes, and pay their workers the same wages, why would you think that their retail prices would differ?
Ok, I looked and I see a LOT more than a few cents difference. The cheapest gas near me is $4.04 a gallon and the most expensive in $5.30, a difference of $1.26 per gallon, or about 30% more.
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But the increased efficiency means higher profits and dividends for the people who make the actual decisions on who is going to be approved to attempt to get the nominations for the elected office in the government which oversees the fairness of the marketplace.
