Rate hikes are for profit but then so are layoffs. Most shoppers are broke due to extreme rip off food prices . There is no money hardly left over for anything but necessities. Unless they plan to maximize shipping from Aldi's, Savalot foods or Dollar tree they can forget about it. Because that is all people are spending money on. 10% of population are rich but the number is not high enough to carry the economy far. Poor choice to raise rates now while consumers are already struggling to just to eat.
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56 more Fedex employees lost jobs at Kegley road facility according to KDH news today. Sorry to hear that. Is it a trend of layoffs coming?
high prices originate with the shipper. goes down the ladder from there til it reaches the fool named "consumer" who pays for the greed at the top eventually. wish for days of old when honesty and fairness in pricing was the standard.
If laid off help each other with tips to save money.
Example: Mc ds all size drinks were 1.00 forever. But raised not 10, not 20 but 40%! To 1.39. Horrible and not reasonable.
Fix it: order 1 large NO ICE drink-1.39
2 medium or more cups of ice only-free.
equals drinks for 2 people and not one
Businesses will keep harpooning the customer until you stop buying. So stop buying at unfair prices and change purchases that match a sensible personal budget.
Canned goods are suppose to go up 30% due to metal. This accounts for alot of shipped food. Beef this week hit crazy unaffordable levels. India will not ship regular white rice but only basmati rice anymore. Most rice comes from there. Food is the most important issue on the shoppers mind. My vote would be layoffs ahead.
Big business is gouging the common folks to death with selfish huge prices.
It could give U.P.S. the advantage now if they decide NOT to raise rates this year as they need to gain customers back that were lost to F due to fears of Teamsters strike. But both companies seem to follow each other's rate hike moves each year. Will this year be different?
True. People can only barely afford groceries right now.