Re: The public is dangerously misinformed about supermarkets

On 8/23/2026 12:09 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> 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.
>
Top Poster Alert!

You sound JELLOS. You have Tim Horton's for God's sake!

The public is dangerously misinformed about supermarkets like this:

BUC-ee's
Open 24 hours
$3.35/Regular

https://tinyurl.com/zj2hawb8

World's Largest Gas Station:

https://buc-ees.com/about/world-record-holder/

Note: There are no BUC-ee's locations in California. However, we used to 
gas up there on our way to Canyon Lake at Buc-ee's in Luling, Texas.
> 
>>
>> 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