is true, that itself would be a self-correcting market force. Your price point should exist somewhere between the extreme of “lock it up so tight nobody can buy it” and “it’s cheaper for people to shoplift it en masse”. If you can’t manage that, maybe you deserve to go out of business (also I think you’ll find that it would also help to increase the number of staff to actually unlock the damn shelves). Perhaps in the long run the market will self correct, but this is absolutely idiotic right now. And the real consequences for people that have lost their local pharmacy are catastrophic.

I mean, there’s nothing at walgreens besides drugs that isn’t a rip-off, and the drugs are a rip-off too. But everything there that isn’t a drug has a huge mark-up relative to a regular store.

I was hoping nobody would notice, I saw that myself as I was thinking through my argument. You’d forgive a friend for putting rhetorical flourishes before pure logic - just this once, wouldn’t you? 😅

that’s my understanding as well

Musk, people still on twitter. It’s absolutely rife with crypto people. And here musk is, stating before courts that he owns your account. I’m sure it works out great for him!

Even if their claim of “organized theft” is true, that itself would be a self-correcting market force. Your price point should exist somewhere between the extreme of “lock it up so tight nobody can buy it” and “it’s cheaper for people to shoplift it en masse”. If you can’t manage that, maybe you deserve to go out of business (also I think you’ll find that it would also help to increase the number of staff to actually unlock the damn shelves). Perhaps in the long run the market will self correct, but this is absolutely idiotic right now. And the real consequences for people that have lost their local pharmacy are catastrophic.

Interesting that it’s the same web3 proponents that are the first to say they own your entire digital identity and you have to like it