Maybe I need to read the book but I don't see it. Consolidation of supermarkets has clearly reduced competition in the US. A small handful of companies have cornered the market because the US government stopped using antitrust laws liberally.
I'm not sure what popularity has to do at all with economic issues.
Yes, that would be the point of reading the book.
You can't argue with the reasoning if you don't know it.
I don't know if we have just "a small handful of companies" or not, but it certainly doesn't work as a compelling example for me of an anti-trust problem.
They are big and the easiest and most obvious to use and their prices are frequently good, but none of those are exclusively Amazon.
Citation needed on this one. Not my experience at all.
At four servings per pound that is 80 servings at $0.106 each.
Average yield of a rice plant, 10 grams.[1]
9071.85 grams of rice is 907 plants roughly.
That's less than a cent to cultivate, grow, prepare, bag and ship a rice plant. Let alone maintain the store where it is sold and pay the workers who sell it to you.
This is the miracle of the free market.
What price do you suggest is more fair?
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