Cool, let’s fuckin make them do that bullshit then.

I’m tired of going “well if we fight back, they’ll just fight back”. Like yeah, they are actively fighting us. We are in a fight. We’re being punched in the face. If we punch them, they will punch us. If we don’t punch them, they will still punch us.

I’m tired of being punched. I want to punch.

The ‘extra’ money comes from jacking up the prices in other items in the same store, like candy and sodas. And from not spending as much money on other stuff like marketing and bonuses.

There are two sides to the profit equation: expenses and revenue.

In order for a store to make more profit, they can either increase their revenue (by raising prices, for example), or they can decrease their expenses (by laying people off, buying from cheaper suppliers, or paying executives less, for example).

So these stores are lowering prices on some items. And making it up by some combination of RAISING prices on other items, and LOWERING their costs in other areas like marketing, executive bonuses, etc.

Hope that helps.

I think at a certain level (i.e. “this guy is going to make us millions of dollars and my buddy plays pickleball with him”) those checks are probably waived.

Like many other things go these days, the experience is completely different if you’re in the club.

Time to switch to a CD

I think it’s about the trolling, not truly wanting Obama back in the seat.

“all in favor of appointing this pile of burning wreckage to a critical government position say aye”

“And the ayes have it with a unanimous vote. Great work everyone, please remember to unfurrow your brow by tomorrow or it might get stuck like that.”

“I’d show up to work early. I can visit their graves on my day off later this year (if I take it). There’s just too much shareholder value at stake for me to be inaccessible for an hour during the week”