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Amazon Doesn’t Need to Make Money on Groceries, Putting Pressure on Wal-Mart, Kroger


Amazon is a monopoly. They will use their market power to put all competitors out of business. Once a they’re the only game in town, they will be free to charge whatever they want. Amazon should be broken up!

“By cutting prices on high-volume staples like bananas, eggs and ground beef in 470 Whole Foods stores, Amazon is signaling it will compete for that traffic. Even if it loses money, it hopes it can bring shoppers into stores, win their loyalty to the whole company and prompt them to spend more money, say former Amazon executives.”

Amazon Doesn’t Need to Make Money on Groceries, Putting Pressure on Wal-Mart, Kroger

Amazon.com will bring lower prices to its new Whole Foods division on Monday. It also will bring a new rule book, further pressuring an already struggling supermarket sector.


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“Suppose that on 9-11 the planes had bombed the White House… suppose they’d ki…


“Suppose that on 9-11 the planes had bombed the White House… suppose they’d killed the president, established a military dictatorship, quickly killed thousands, tortured tens of thousands more, set up a major international terror center that was carrying out assassinations, overthrowing governments all over the place, installing other dictatorships, and drove the country into one of the worst depressions in its history and had to call on the state to bail them out. Suppose that had happened? It did happen. On the first 9-11 in 1973. Except we were responsible for it, so it didn’t happen. That’s Allende’s Chile. You can’t imagine the media talking about this.” – Chomsky


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Tesla’s Hurricane Irma Update Taps Into Our Deepest Fears Of 21st Century Driving


“But what it also previewed is our imminent future of unprecedented corporate control over how we drive and what we drive. I briefly mentioned it in the article yesterday, but it’s not hard to imagine a worst case scenario where a company or corporation becomes a critical decider in disaster scenarios, like with Hurricane Irma, out of consumer and government control in a critical moment.”

Tesla’s Hurricane Irma Update Taps Into Our Deepest Fears Of 21st Century Driving

Earlier this week, Tesla remotely upgraded select Florida Tesla owners’ cars to expand their mileage capacity in an effort to ease and assist with Hurricane Irma evacuation efforts. The move was praiseworthy and appropriate, but at the root of the gesture lies a terrifying prospect of our automotive…


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