Billionaire Howard Schultz, Starbucks’s former CEO, insisted that Starbucks would not enter a price war in China. He claimed “as chinese customers become more knowledgeable about coffee, they will want to upgrade from lower-end or discounted products”
They got more knowledgeable about coffee which is precisely why they’re choosing places other than starbucks.
People thinking that American politics needs to dominate every single place of conversation is mildly infuriating at least.
The interest rate isn’t at near-zero anymore so instead of growing with insane leverage, they’re trying to keep the juicy profit margins going by cutting while still raising prices as much as they can. Squeeze is a very apt term here because us peasants are getting squeezed every which way. When the fumes run out from the post-covid squeeze, the decline will accelerate. Government and corporate coffers are getting raided by the rich on the way out.
I have not bought any eggs in about a year or so. The price of food keeps increasing and this is one of the more egregious examples. Sure there’s the bird flu outbreak, but I wouldn’t be surprised if prices are being increased far beyond the actual cost.
Awesome! Now all I need to do is to stop being lazy and actually make a new game. Challenge level: impossible.
T-that’s just a coincidence…!
Gamers back then were crying about it being unoptimized back then too. There is no care about what the game accomplishes, only that it has to run perfectly smooth on their hardware.
It helps Call of Duty 4 in that their levels were a lot more restricted and didn’t have all the physics and AI calculations that Crysis had to do. Even then, Crysis had better graphics and more advanced effects.
Maybe it’s location based, but I had a mcflurry about a year ago and was given a pathetically small amount of the topping poorly mixed in a terrible filler ice cream. Perhaps the ice cream in the mcflurry was always terrible, but I hadn’t noticed it before when I would get a lot more of the topping. Also, their coffee was better for a time but it has reverted to burnt mud.
Apparently quite a few people have a high tolerance for what they value.
Prices have gone up while portions, service, and even quality (as low as it already was) have gone down. When does “the free market” start improving things for customers instead of just shareholders?
A lot of this is on paper. For example, if they’re calculating potential retirement age based on stock market returns then they may be in for a rude awakening if the longest bull run of all time (minus the covid disruption) ends. But what are the odds of that, right? Surely housing prices will also rise forever too.
The political memes community in particular has silly moderation. My post criticizing the billions in dollars being sent in support of genocide got deleted and when I asked for clarification, I got this explanation (and I quote):
You’re blatant accusing political partition being pro genocide.
This is an opinion.
But I know that no one is PRO genocide. Therefore stating it as such is misinformation. It was removed for this reason alone.
What the heck is a chief philanthropy officer?
They got ignored by the people they petitioned for help.
Anti-genocide protesters did more than just pick up a phone and call. We all saw the result.
Hype over fake news like this is one major reason how tesla’s stock price has gotten as high as it has.
Most, if not all, of these books talking about how to get rich are how the authors get rich in the first place. While there may be some good advice in them, the real way to get rich is to sell others on the idea that they could be rich if they buy your products/services.
Thanks for admitting you have no response and instead rely on a thought-terminating cliché.
People will upvote and downvote for any reason, but often do so simply because they agree or disagree with the post. A good moderator does not moderate based on their personal opinions. I would rather not rely on votes for moderation because it’s terrible for that purpose.