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__Purple_Mermaid11
you are so right, but if you cant fix it dont complain
posted by
Lanetay
on August 31, 2008 at 9:10 AM
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but dear, there is always something to complain about everywhere...prices and places...
posted by
__Purple_Mermaid11__
on August 31, 2008 at 2:22 AM
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TAPS
but if you and I and everyone else dont shop at the places that raise their prices we will send a message
posted by
Lanetay
on August 31, 2008 at 1:07 AM
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Talion
but do you realize the mark up on goods already before the price of gas jumped a shirt you pay $20 for cost the company probably about $5, whose winning in this, no the consumer
posted by
Lanetay
on August 31, 2008 at 1:06 AM
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lustorlove
While it's certainly possible companies are taking advantage of us, there's an important reality we must consider. Everything we buy at some point in time was once on a truck. Whether it's furniture, clothing, electronics, food, any and everything possible for a consumer to consume is transported in some fashion. When fuel costs rise, these costs are passed on to companies. Companies in turn pass them on to their customers, namely us. We're stuck, paying more for the fuel we use ourselves and paying more for goods and services, and presently, there's not much, if anything, we can do about it.
posted by
Talion_
on August 30, 2008 at 10:35 PM
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lustorlove, I think that everyone wants someone else to do what is necessary to make changes.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 30, 2008 at 9:29 PM
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Whacky
The stores that reduce their prices where familes can buy school clothes is on the right track, but those that rasied them and blame it on the oil prices need to take a smaller cut to out the struggling families out
posted by
Lanetay
on August 30, 2008 at 8:46 PM
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You are right!
It seems like Wal-mart is as crowded as ever.
Though I don't go as much as I used to.
posted by
Whacky
on August 30, 2008 at 8:21 PM
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callista
And you made the right choices, the more we get people to cut back and not shop at stores that hike up prices to pay for the extra cost of shipping, but what kind of mark up is there all ready on clothes, food, gas etc., we are getting screwed over by falling for their tactics, some one needs to step up and decide to stop the rise in prices, just take a lesser profit.
posted by
Lanetay
on August 30, 2008 at 7:47 PM
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There was a news story the other evening on tv and they said that the
retailers in our area were hurting, that people were not buying back to school clothes for their children because they had to cut back some where.
You are talking to the queen of cut back and stretching a dollar, but i still complain about the gas prices, food prices etc. I don't feel bad about having to cut back, i hate to see families with children struggling to the extent that they can't have school clothes. I should explain that i live in the part of the country that i quit my job partly because after buying gas it didn't pay enough to put up with their crap, most people here travel on an average of 50-100 miles a day to work and back.
posted by
jeansaw
on August 30, 2008 at 6:02 PM
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sam444
thats true but it was obvious to me no one was really cutting down on the shopping or the gas, if we complain then we need to be willing to do something about it
posted by
Lanetay
on August 30, 2008 at 4:42 PM
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It would take a nation wide effort to make an impact in my humble opinion. sam
posted by
sam444
on August 30, 2008 at 4:24 PM
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