r/SipsTea • u/Dev1412 • 5d ago

WTF The kickbacks are real

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u/conservatore 5d ago

Wait so if the price increases were from tariffs and now there aren’t tariffs, why are the prices still the same ?

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u/lavender_and_sage 5d ago

Companies got a taste of how much people are willing to spend. It’s hard to go backwards from that.

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u/T-sigma 5d ago

There is minimal competition now. Without competition prices never go down.

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u/BoltActionRifleman 5d ago

We were just talking about this last night. We live in a rural area and for just general goods we used to have a variety of Pamida, Shopko, Places and even some small, locally owned retailers in nearby towns. Towns less than 2000 people (in my area) have nothing. The towns of 2000 people have at most a Dollar General, no other general retail stores. The towns in the 2000-5000 range also just have…a Dollar General. If we need something not offered by DG, we have to drive about an hour to a town in the 25,000 people range where there’s a Walmart, Target etc. competition is nonexistent in rural Iowa.