• 0 Posts
  • 119 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: May 30th, 2024

help-circle
rss







  • Unfortunately I have decades of experience in retail, and several years in pricing. Pricing has almost nothing to do with markup ratios alone. That’s not how it works. How it actually works is that they charge what people expect to, are conditioned to, or are willing to pay. So I sell you a $7,000 TV I’m lucky if I make $20 on the deal. If you buy 3 HDMI cables I just made $60 in profits. Clothes is even crazier, I’ll sell you any leather product at a loss but you buy a well made mixed fabric dress and that’s $40 against a total cost of $0.75, and that’s mostly shipping. Soft lines are an absolute beast. Then you have advanced fuckery. Walmart has a lot of money. If the textiles from Bangladesh get hit harder than the textiles from Indonesia, guess who can afford to pay a shipping company based in Indonesia to forge paperwork and swap cargo in a third country’s port without anyone in the US figuring it out for decades even if they cared to investigate and in the end they have to pay a fine that will probably be less than the money saved from the shipping fruad. Small businesses will die. Huge businesses will get bigger and more powerful. This was always the plan.







  • OK, so, I live in farm country and there’s some problems with what your saying. 1. It’s actually good pay. In fact some farmers have tried raising the pay to attract more workers, it rarely works. Farms are in the middle of nowhere. There’s no city. MAYBE there’s a post office and a store that sells exclusively Croation gass station fare. MAYBE. It’s temporary work. You get a few months pay. So. Remote, physically demanding, and temporary. That’s what makes it a ‘‘no thanks’’ job for every American. We live hand to mouth, we live in a stack of cards that requires constant payments. That’s not a problem in Latin America for the most part, they live hand to mouth but they can save up money, they are maxed out on payments and debt, they just throw extra money in a jar and only live of what they really really need. So working a few months in the US, then Canada, then Mexico, it’s OK. That’s why they’re called seasonal farm workers. When you close to boarders you trap them out of their job and create insane problems. I don’t know why Americans can’t figure out how the food gets to the Walmart, but they have been failing up grasp this for a long ass time.