The Folks Who Sell Your Corn Flakes are Acting Like Goldman Sachs

Re:The Folks Who Sell Your Corn Flakes are Acting Like Goldm... by GFischer on Friday September 13, 2013 @04:29PM (#6382924)

For big commodities like corn, that might not be a solution, but I'd like to build a startup that covers some huge market inneficiencies - for example, peppers grown 500 km from the city I live in are sold at U$ 1, while they cost U$ 4 at the supermarket.

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Re:The Folks Who Sell Your Corn Flakes are Acting Like Goldm... by fleitz on Friday September 13, 2013 @07:44PM (#6383928)

Do you mean as in 500km from your city you can buy peppers for $1 and they cost $4 in the city?

Or did you mean that there is a $3 price discrepancy for peppers between the supermarket and the fruit stand?

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Re:The Folks Who Sell Your Corn Flakes are Acting Like Goldm... by GFischer on Friday September 13, 2013 @09:43PM (#6384295)

I meant that in 500 km from my city you can buy peppers for $1 and they cost $4 in the city.

they're about $3 in the fruit stand and $4 in the supermarket.

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