Yep. I will miss this place. Can't talk no more.

> the representations the Prime Minister is making to shippers to bring their costs down.

No representation was made to the grocers. The law was changed in 4 days notice.

Why not price control the shippers? Why not? Why not price control the brokers who rob people blind?

Folks, prepare for increased prices and shortages.

Hoard potato chips.🍟

I feel sorry for the grocers.

The difficulty is that there is no way this could be done in 4 days. Not for big or small businesses.

Also the categories are flawed. They should not control the prices of all "chicken", but rather one item like 'chicken legs" or "chicken wings".

Only specific cereals are mentioned, but turkey, chicken and pork are too general. I would have placed only one meat item on the list.

As it is , it looks that the composer of this list just wrote out his personal shopping list.

You control prices of what the poor eat, not all categories.

> by using a random telephone number selection.

Must be random. they select my number every time.

Furthermore, they did not add 38 products to the list. They added 38 categories, so it is many more products.

Only cheddar cheese is price controlled.

But "sandwich meat"? Pate fois gras will be price controlled. Lyford Cay is dancing in the streets.

When they reduced the duty on certain items last May, they said something about wanting to see the change reflected in the retail price. But should have started discussion of the price control then, allowign peope to make the decision of not stocking up and selling out what they had.

It is rather ignorant to think retailers could change their price in 4 days. When VAT was implemented, retailers had months to chage computer systems and prices.

So, yes, smaller retailers will drop what they can drop, as they cannot cost shift like the big guns.

Reducing duty does not accomplish much. These days, your VAT on customs import receipts is often much higher than duties.

I hope the retailers and wholesalers have the cojones to stand up for their rights.

Price controls were phased out decades ago. Except in Cuba and this country.

However, inflation was self inflicted after the pandemic and demagogues all over are bringing it back. So they decided to add more.

The grocers handle the existing list through loss leaders business methods, and cannot add these things in 4 days.

Folks who eat from breadbasket will not benefit from the new price control. They eat mackerel, not butterball sluiced turkey sandwich meat.

The public are the best price controllers. Have you noticed no one is buying 6 dollar eggs?

Even bakers can let go of eggs. There are things such as egg less bread and cakes.

People are not stupid.

The Price Control Commission will create more jobs for political operatives.

Some of the additional items do not need to ne price controlled. Take bananas, it is abundantly cheap and even rotten ones can be bought to make bread, if you control the price, merchants will stop buying.

Notice they increased the margins on eggs from 10% to 25%, just as the price of eggs are very high. I wish luck to merchants increasing egg prices as I have seen people grumbling in the stores over egg prices.

Some prices are there for optics, white potaros go for 4 dollars for a 5lb bag, why control the price? OTOH, the sweet potatoes are 3 dollars for 1 pound, and that is not controlled.

I could understand baloney being price cobtrolled, but not all "sandwich meat". Let the merchant make a killing on prosciutto , fresh market is selling at discount as even the rich ones cannot bear the price.

The study found that one in 12 or an estimated 4,000

Can this newspaper stop calling this a study?

It was poll, survey. No different from the poll you tick at the Tribune.

Bananas are just about the only fruit I can afford.
If he stops bringing in bananas and eggs people will riot.

He better tell the govt like it is.

The govt reduces the margins, but should reduce vat on the price control to 5%. They should give a little too.