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minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoOne wonders how long greedy corporations will continue to use “the dockworker’s strike, don’t you know” as a lame excuse to jack up retail prices now. Four months? Six?
minus-squareVeedem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 months agoThe company I work for was already using it for expected price hikes in February 2025 lol
minus-squarePersnickityPenguin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoSupposedly the shipping companies had already jacked up prices per container from $3000 to $30,000 this past month.
minus-squareCascadianGiraffe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoYou think they will follow a time limit? That’s just the price now.
One wonders how long greedy corporations will continue to use “the dockworker’s strike, don’t you know” as a lame excuse to jack up retail prices now. Four months? Six?
The company I work for was already using it for expected price hikes in February 2025 lol
Supposedly the shipping companies had already jacked up prices per container from $3000 to $30,000 this past month.
You think they will follow a time limit?
That’s just the price now.