Meme & Quote Thread

[goldfly]

 

[sturg33]

hell, people pay McD over $2.00 for cold coffee --- .
Drive thru lines out to the street.

$3.99 is the going rate for a Big Mac.
If a person is willing to pay $3.99 for that garbage -- they will pony up $4.16.

Gas goes up $.50-.75 a gallon and we pay it without thinking.
To be fair, I was told by one of our economic seers rising prices are an indicator of a growing economy.
Or does that only apply while enabling / i mean defending the corporate welfare state/ investor class

A basic lesson in economics.

If a smart company could raise prices 4.3% and it NOT hurt their sales, they would have already done it.

 

[goldfly]

they wouldn't hurt their sales.

they hurt their profit

 

[Hawk]

they wouldn't hurt their sales.

they hurt their profit

Some background/context: https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3777d9c35fd5

 

[sturg33]

they wouldn't hurt their sales.

they hurt their profit

You do not understand either.

Both you and 57 keep saying that McDonald's simply needs to raise their prices 17 cents.

My point, that you can't grasp, is that they would have already done this if it didn't impact their sales

 

[goldfly]

i grasp it just fine

i know you don't believe that

and that's fine

 

[goldfly]

Some background/context: https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3777d9c35fd5

i know those stories

being part of big business sucks and you get a ****ty product usually

 

[sturg33]

i grasp it just fine

i know you don't believe that

and that's fine

Then you intentionally made a dumb point earlier

 

[Hawk]

i know those stories

being part of big business sucks and you get a ****ty product usually

Beyond that, price marketing is a business in and of itself.

 

[goldfly]

 

[goldfly]

 

[Runnin]

 

[57Brave]

This was over the selective service draft into a senseless illegal war.





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Fifty years ago today, a thousand police officers stormed Columbia University

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buildings they were occupying.

http://nyti.ms/2GgG1KR

 

[Runnin]

 

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[57Brave]

 

[57Brave]

This happened:

 

[Runnin]

Michael Cohen issues $130,000 payment to silence Rudy Giuliani

 

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