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Re:EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in sea... by Spivak on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @11:21AM (#46206778)
Everyone likes to hate on Dollar General but they made a little over $1 billion in profit on a little over $40 billion of goods sold which is a 2.7% profit margin. In terms of real value delivered to customers it's really hard to beat that. Kroger by comparison is 1.8%. In both cases we're talking about less than 3 cents of profit per dollar.
Re:EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in sea... by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @12:24PM (#46207701)
Slightly worrying that there's two comments replying to an article about deliberate overcharging of consumers with responses about how profitable that is for them.
Re:EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in sea... by Spivak on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @01:02PM (#46208220)
I mean the answer is "not very profitable." They're making less profit as a percentage of revenue than Costco. They absolutely should do better at updating the tags on their shelves but they're less making it rain and more getting pelted with pennies.