Timothy Birdnow

Whoopi Goldberg, the swine who walks like a woman, has the temerity to call grocers "pigs" for high food prices.

Yes, Caryn Elaine Johnson, known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg actually said that on The Pew, er, View.

She shows she is a complete moron. Grocery stores have very low profit margins - averaging 1.6% net profit after taxes according to the Food Industry Association's 2023 report.

Those numbers haven't changed much in decades, although the margins dropped during the pandemic. That is no surprise; they had more loss during the pandemic and at the same time lost considerable business to Amazon and other delivery services.

In fact the profit margins have shrunk in recent years.

Inflation is what has driven the prices up, and that has been caused by the Biden Administration's immense spending. The Federal Reserve had to double the money supply to cover Biden's deficit and that drove the prices up. Couple that with Biden's war on oil - something used by farmers and by truckers - and add to that the Biden Administration's draconian farming regulations and you have a recipe' for food inflation. But the idiot Goldberg blames it on "greed" by grocers!

So genius, when did the grocery industry hold a meeting and agree to all raise prices together? Surely if they are just screwing the public and price goughing we should be able to show where they colluded and how.

I worked for years for a grocer and know how hard it is to make a go of. My company went bankrupt, I might add, and I not only lost my job but my pension too.

Often grocery stores offer "lost leaders", products that are losing money selling just to get people into the store in the hopes they impulse buy profitable products. Sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't. But if you are to be competitive in the market you HAVE to run lost leader sales.

Oh, and another thing; most grocery stores are union and pay union scale to their employees. So Whoopi does not take mandatory raises or health benefits into account when looking at prices. The average wage of a worker in a grocery store is now $15an hour, which is up considerably. (I started in at $3 and, when I quit in the late nineties, was making top dollar at $11 as the store's LEAD CO-MANAGER. But then the industry had gone thorough a major correction and no longer paid as well as it had in the seventies.) These are the good union jobs that we have been told by Democrats in days of yore were so vital to the American economy, yet Whooping Cough would happily deprive the companies of any profits and thus cost workers these good jobs.

So Whoopi calls them pigs for not operating at a deficit like the government. To quote Bugs Bunny "what a maroon!"

During the pandemic grocery workers were heroes, risking their health and lives to get us our chow. Now because prices are up and that was a political embarrassment to Kamala and Joe they are "pigs".

The real swine is Whoopi and her Bolshevik buddies.

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