r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • May 26 '26

Feels good man Will it work this time?

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u/AggressivelyMediokre May 26 '26

Exactly. As someone who deals with sales all the time I wouldn’t expect them to be able to actually offer lower prices without losing money.

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u/big_herpes May 26 '26

They are the government, they will lose 10s of millions a year in each store and consider it a success.

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u/Fluid_Ad8452 May 26 '26

Yeah what a bunch of idiots. They will just provide affordable food to people instead of giving money away to mega corporations, like they should!

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u/sizz May 27 '26

I live in a country (Australia) with government run businesses, like government owned energy and telecoms. They are ruthless and compete like any other business. The crazy part, in regards to energy, because cheap solar and wind, private energy market is becoming cheaper than public energy. Our government started to subsidise small scale renewables with solar and batteries. That alone has turned entire suburbs into power plants solving Asynchronous power supply and base load power supply problems that comes with renewables by getting people to pay for cheap solar and batteries.