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And no one will blame Chris Kempczinski.

 

My vote goes to gouging and greed.

 

I'm still gobsmacked by $7.50 for a box of cereal and $3.50 for a 2-liter Diet Dr Pepper.

$3.75 total at Aldi/Walmart (substituting Diet Dr Thunder for Diet Dr Pepper).

 

McDonald’s is a public-health menace.

The sooner your average fat-ass American gets priced out of it, the better.

 

Almost everything is gouging. There is almost nothing for which people should be being charged what they are being charged.

Housing, whether to own, or rent, as well as education, medical services, medicines, food, gas, cable, phone, electricity, water...everything. Money has become the be-all/end-all of life.

It's why people are becoming more and more expendable at work -- because they are every company's biggest expense. And it is what's causing good causes to beg, more and more, for money, too. Most phone calls are solicitors now, they're on every corner, and, at Walmart, at every door, especially now.

It's all about money, for the corporate levels.

 

But just remember, they're going to go bankrupt if they have to start their workers at $15/hr.

 

We always buy store brand groceries. About the only thing I insist being name brand is Doritos. Store brand is not the same there. Of course, that's why I only get Doritos when they are on sale.

 

Unfortunately, Publix doesn't have store brand of my favorite cereals, and they don't have any store-brand diet soft drinks comparable to Pepsi or Dr Pepper. If not for marrow bones for dogs, I'd almost never shop there anymore.

I miss North Carolina, where you actually had a choice of grocers (Food Lion, Harris-Teeter, Lowe's, Harvey's, Ingles (but no Ingles in Charlotte!).

 

I've never mapped it out, but I'd say you'd be hard pressed to find an Ingles east of Hickory.

 

Dear God ... Mac Fucking Donalds stands accused of "gouging"?

 

I had my first and last McRib on October 18, 2011 in Trenton. Worst fast food thing I've ever eaten.

 

Cleveland/Shelby is the first one we always saw taking 74 to Tennessee.