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[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 110 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That was fast, good for them!

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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?

[–] Veedem@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

The company I work for was already using it for expected price hikes in February 2025 lol

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Supposedly the shipping companies had already jacked up prices per container from $3000 to $30,000 this past month.

[–] CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You think they will follow a time limit?

That's just the price now.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Oh, for sure the prices will remain inflated forever. I was just gauging the longevity of trying to use this as the stated excuse.

[–] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Right? I was worried it"d drag on...

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"What am going to do with this pallet of toilet paper I panic bought?!?" - American idiots

[–] almar_quigley@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The best part…we don’t import our toilet paper. People are dumb…

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Peope cleared out the local grocery store of eggs on Tuesday despite our eggs being overwhelming laid domestically. The idiotic cherry on top was that the giant packs of 60 eggs were untouched. So everyone was buying a bunch of one dozen egg packs, and just leaving the bulk stuff. So that's how I, a single guy who lives alone, ended up with 60 eggs

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So that’s how I, a single guy who lives alone, ended up with 60 eggs

If the lore is accurate, after eating all of those you should be roughly as big as a barge.

Or dead from the cholesterol. One of the two.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He could make a cake, or a really big omelet.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

Been wilding out baking pumpkin bread, pumpkin brittle, pumpkin cheesecake, and buckeye cookies, but that's only been 12 eggs, including my meals

Me too. Good won for a change!