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Originally Posted by tabs
Ahh can you tell me why this is going on...? And why are the unscrupulous able to get away with charging more?
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Simple wholesale supply and demand creates the ripple effect in the market, and some suppliers (not all) will base their pricing protocol on national market conditions rather than local availability and economics, which I consider to be less than honest. For instance, I purchase shrimp locally, from an independent fisherman, as I won't serve product industrially farmed in or out of the U.S. His catch isn't affected by the weather in Texas; his cost of business does not increase, therefore his prices should not increase either (and they have not).
I buy brisket from a jobber out of Texas--who warehouses the cryovaced goods until they're ordered by the retail outlet (me). They buy on the futures market, already at bulk discount, and although the weather in Texas will affect them when they reorder--it does not affect them on what they currently have--yet they announced my pricing would go up dramatically effective immediately. The scale should be set on what they paid for their product and not what they expect to pay once the weather settles. It is dishonest. They do it because they can--and because most people just let it go without question. I do not. I shop around and find another supplier. A lot of this is also the less-than-knowledgeable sales force that I deal with on a daily basis.
I get it--that's the free market, but I see it from all ends, as I have owned and operated dozens of businesses in my life--and have been on the supply and distribution side in many of them.