Yes they are shorter. The best strip song ever and they took it down to 2 minutes. I can't find the stripper version though
Don't know about the food courts as a whole, but the $1.50 hot dog/coke combo is definitely a loss leader. https://www.mashed.com/150302/this-is-why-costcos-hot-dog-combos-really-cost-1-50/
Ackchyually, they were losing 30-40 million a year on the chickens in 2015 according to the CFO https://www.seattletimes.com/business/retail/costco-philosophical-about-chicken-prices/
Read again. They lost 30 to 40 million in margin. They weren't necessary losing money on the chicken themselves. Costco also started producing and packaging their own chickens recently so they aren't getting gouged by the packaging companies right now.
I love how stupid people blame a president for inflation....... The President has very little to do with the economy......either way. DD
I fully agree inflation is a problem but having just come back from Singapore and the Netherlands prices are up in all of those places. This isn't a US problem.
It kind of is when the world runs on dollars and the Fed is coordinating actions with other major Central Banks. The problem is they don't have as much influence for the world as people really think and they're playing their next moves off data everyone else mostly has. Data->Market->Fed
It's always been a world problem. The US is doing better than everything else. The concern I have but have heard few comments on is radical changes and/or collapse of economies. Crete Lebenon El Salvador Turkey Kazakhstan China has major problems. Peru is starting to have issues
White House allies split over inflation plan as Biden trains attacks on corporate greed The administration has blamed large companies for price increases but some question that approach https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/01/10/white-house-inflation-strategy/ excerpt: But the move to blame big firms for the price spikes has divided many supporters of the administration. Senior officials at the Treasury Department, for instance, have been unsettled by the White House’s attempts to blame some large corporations for inflation, skeptical of that explanation for the recent rise in prices, according to four people with knowledge of internal administration dynamics. Senior Treasury officials are generally supportive of the White House’s broader antitrust strategy and believe it is possible that corporate consolidation is playing some role in higher prices. But they are wary that the White House’s recent efforts risk going too far. “There are some people at Treasury, all the way to the top, that have a very strong analytical bent and recognize there is something to the notion that the lack of contestability in certain markets has driven up prices, but also think that it’s hard to imagine that’s a significant factor in the current surge,” said Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University and former senior official at the International Monetary Fund. “There is unease at Treasury about pushing this line too hard,” he added. “There is a real concern there about this going too far.” Over the last month, some Treasury officials have argued privately that the administration should prioritize relaxing tariff duties to ease the price increases hitting American consumers. The administration has not yet done so, in part to avoid surrendering the levies as a negotiating tool against China without securing significant concessions in return, the people said. The Trump administration imposed tariffs on more than two-thirds of what the U.S. imports from China that remain in effect. That represented more than $300 billion a year in goods before the tariffs were enacted. Internal analyses by Biden administration economists have also found that lifting the tariffs on China might only minimally alleviate inflation in the United States, which could lead to a “double bind” in which Biden both looks soft on China with little clear benefit to the public, two other people said. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect private administration talks. The tensions reflect the broader challenge facing the Biden administration as it tries to contain the economic and political fallout over inflation with few obvious solutions at hand. more at the link
