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Re:Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boos... by layoric on Thursday December 07, 2023 @06:43PM (#38563367)
Rise like rockets, fall like feathers as they say. Out of interest, in what markets have you seen prices come down?
Re:Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boos... by megaman821 on Thursday December 07, 2023 @06:49PM (#38563448)
Gas, batteries, cars and homes.

I understand people look at their grocery bill and get mad, since nothing seems to bring down food though.

Re:Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boos... by layoric on Thursday December 07, 2023 @07:00PM (#38563558)
Wow, really? Different here in Australia, petrol is $5.50/gallon ($2.2 per litre converted), batteries I don't know, but EVs are crazy expensive. And housing is absolute madness, Eg Sydney median house price is something like $1.125M AUD ($740k USD). So the price drops seem to be delayed here I guess..
Re:Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boos... by PebblesHD on Thursday December 07, 2023 @07:15PM (#38563711)
That may be the median for all dwellings including apartments. The median detached house price is closer to $1.4m AUD in Sydney at the moment. Grocery prices are still near record highs, petrol has come down slightly but give it a week and it’ll be back up with our cycles, and products are still being shrunk in dishonest ways.

Still waiting to see the ‘prices come back down’ from the parent post, meanwhile our main shopping companies all posted record profits.

Re:Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boos... by WrongAssumption on Thursday December 07, 2023 @07:15PM (#38563719)
Average gas price in Australia during November $1.3 was per litre.
Re:Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boos... by layoric on Thursday December 07, 2023 @08:59PM (#38564483)
Surprising, where I am in Canberra, I never see it below 1.99 AUD/litre for the cheapest ethanol heavy stuff, but at my local nearly always see it above $2 AUD. But I don't get fuel that often so maybe I've just missed the drops.

Ahh, just realized $1.3 USD is about $2 AUD or ~$5.1USD/gallon, so yeah that tracks I guess.

Re:Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boos... by cqqxo4zV46cp on Thursday December 07, 2023 @07:15PM (#38563713)
Regardless, using housing is pretty disingenuous anyway. It’s a largely second-hand peer-to-peer market. Not like my eggs…I hope.
Re:Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boos... by WillPostForFood on Thursday December 07, 2023 @06:59PM (#38563557)
Eggs have come way back down.
Re:Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boos... by autoexec on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:17PM (#38564601)
After being ordered to pay massive fines in price gouging lawsuits so no surprise there.
Re:Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boos... by soupfordummies on Friday December 08, 2023 @11:37AM (#38570931)
I'm not sure about batteries but gas/cars/homes are still WAY up from where they were about 4 years ago (wow, it's really been that long :P ) They've just ticked down (slightly) from their peaks.
Re:Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boos... by xnx on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:01PM (#38564507)