Category: Basic Economics

is TOTALLY ignorant about the grocery business, and he is in WAAAY over his well-coiffed head, here!

So here are the facts about grocery stores. Conventional supermarkets — not bodegas or convenience stores — run on a very thin overall margin of between 1% and 3%. The competition is so intense that stores will do nearly anything to get people through the doors.

The military commissaries run on very much the same principles as Mamdani is pushing but as I personally can attest:

So, great. I was really excited when I started shopping at the commissary after I married my Navy husband. To my shock, however, the prices there were not really better than prices at Walmart and other discount grocers. 

YUP! And I have Post Exchange privileges where I can buy at reduced costs. Except that I can get the very same things just as cheap (or even cheaper) through Amazon.com.

So I don’t think I have purchased a single thing there since I was Active Duty living in Japan! Even subsidized, the Exchange (stateside, not in Japan where it is a very different story) is not really an awesome deal almost all of the time.

When visiting Tokyo, I bought my wife a string of Mikimoto pearls, and while not cheap, they were a decent deal (and stunningly beautiful). But that was pretty much it, and it was availability as much as price that attracted me.

economic ignorance is a Lefty thinking anything actually can be free. Uh, no…

Yeah, maybe free to you, but somebody paid for it! Lefties seem sometimes to think that things just magically appear. But of course, someone worked to create it…

to understand the way the world works, here. Because Lefty pie-in-the-sky shibboleths are NOT, in fact, productive at all! I can stomp my foot and demand fairies and unicorns, but it will not generate what I want. And it will not provide goods to other people, either

you look at THAT! Get rid of illegals and “magically” rents go down. Tell me again, just how does supply and demand work? 🙄

“When you crack down on immigration, legal and illegal, housing costs naturally drop,” said Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Worker. “Supply and demand, baby,” said Lynn, who opposes the visa programs that deliver roughly 2.5 million foreign visa workers into white-collar jobs and apartments throughout the nation.