Re: Three Body Problem

Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

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Please tell me of any country that put price controls on food that
survived that act as a democracy or a republic.

The US and the UK?  Both did it during wartime as a temporary move and
then eliminated the controls when the crisis was over.

BTW, the number one national seller of food in the USA is Walmart.
Walmart disrupted the grocery industry severely in the 1990s when they
added groceries to all of their stores.  Are you going to accuse Walmart
of price fixing ?  Walmart is where the poor go to shop, they know where
the best deal is.

Walmart is the KING of price fixing.  They know exactly what they can get
away with selling a thing for and exactly what they can get the manufacturer
to sell it for, and they have a monopoly in many areas so there is really no
competition.

They will come into a small town with extremely low prices, put all the
other stores in the area out of business, and then raise prices afterward.
It's interesting to compare Walmart prices from place to place.

They do specialize in special "Walmart Models" of appliances in order to
make price comparisons difficult, but on the good side they don't often
have the "slightly smaller than the other guys" packages that the dollar
stores do.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."