Re: The public is dangerously misinformed about supermarkets

On Sun, 23 Aug 2026 19:20:22 +0100, Julian <[email protected]>
wrote:

>The real driver of higher grocery prices is not greed; it’s policy.
Yes, the policy is greed.

>
>I have at least one thing in common with Boris Yeltsin, the first 
>president of the Russian Federation. When I’m travelling, one of my 
>favourite activities is visiting a local supermarket. In 1989, when 
>still a communist, Yeltsin made an impromptu stop at Randall’s 
>supermarket in the suburbs of Houston.
>
>“When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, 
>cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt 
>quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people,” Yeltsin wrote in 
>his memoir. “That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been 
>brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it.”
>
>It is often said this visit helped puncture any remaining faith he had 
>in the Soviet system, hastening the collapse of communism...
>
>https://economicaffairs.co.uk/p/the-public-is-dangerously-misinformed
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