• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    You can zone them there, it more over ends up being that large companies lowered prices to drive out competition, and then raise them back up after. If it cost your 30% more to shop somewhere when you are paycheck to paycheck, eventually the majority of people start going to the price selling at cost for those product and putting promotions on them because they can afford to stay afloat until you go out of business. Then they slowly raise the prices back up and they make their money, maybe a little higher because they don’t have competition.

    Also: If you order 50 cases of something it costs less as well. Ordering 1 case often makes a vendor not want to ship there as it cost them more time/labor/fuel to make those deliveries. So when a product cost $5 at Walmart vs $5 at your local convenience store, Walmart is making more money off the sale. Making it easier to use lower prices