In search of a dozen eggs, Laura Miniel, Ana and I chose to test the grocery waters of the El Globo Supermarket located at Price Road and the Frontage Road of I-69.
The stench of El Globo, from lack of sanitation, hit us at the opening of the automatic door. It was reminiscent of the odor of Lopez Supermarkets, a proliferation of smelly, unclean stores "serving" Brownsville from the 70's.(We must differentiate the A&V Lopez outfit that smells and looks clean to this day.)
We found El Globo's egg section with all sizes conveniently and greedily priced at $3.99 per dozen.
We passed on El Globo's eggs, obviously pricegouged and their smelly, unprofessional "store."
The next day Ana purchased two packs of 18 count extra large eggs at H.E.B. for $2.30 each.
H.E.B. may be raking in the millions, but, at least, they're not pricegouging and keeping unsanitary stores like El Globo.
It must have reminded your wife Ana of home. Ha ha ha ha
ReplyDeleteObviously, dumbass, you've never been to the Philippines where most of the supermarkets are in high end malls like the Mall of Asia.
DeleteDoubt that. Third World country!
DeleteGet ready for four more years of Herr Drumpf! What joys and 'accomplishments' will these next four bring? United Slaves of Corporate Welfare is GOING DOWN!!!! Had enough yet? Think 'El Globo' is bad? Watch HEB and ALL the others join in the food shortage/price gouging bonanza that is soon to beset us all in a short few months, or weeks, or within the year for CERTAIN!!! NOBODY wants to hear this. NOBODY wants to believe this. Why would anybody? WE live in the land of 'milk and honey'!!!
DeleteI'm actually attempting to provide a 'heads-up'. Thus far in my efforts, I repeatedly hear variations of: STOP telling 'others' what to do! STOP panicking! DON'T worry! It will be fine! We DO NOT want to hear your 'unhinged' opinions!
Mark my words! The 'recession' we're going into will be FAR worse than 1939! FAR worse than ANYTHING anyone living today in this country has EVER experienced (with the exception of those who've had the 'pleasure' of living in other 'shit hole' countries during a period of time in which 'democracy' was being 'installed').
Cheers and 'love' from the CIA! "We lied, we cheated, we stole....we had entire classes in it...."
FYI: My 'real' name is Pompous! (I think you can figure that out, can't you?)
Makes you feel like your're in a Philippine wet market.
DeleteIt’s not price gouging if markup in line with increased cost to obtain those eggs from their whole seller. You take years to write only to trash the reputation of a community store. Fuck off, old man.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous Price gouging is a term referring to when a seller spikes the prices of goods, services or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair, and is considered exploitative, potentially to an unethical extent.
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ReplyDeleteTo a degree, most Americans do not appreciate that there is an enormous amount we simply do not understand at this point about this Coronavirus disease. We do not know how lethal it is. We do not know the effect of seasonality and climate on its spread.
ReplyDeleteWe do not understand the age skew of health outcomes, since the disparities between elderly patients and young ones vary wildly country to country. We do not know, for sure, whether those who have survived it have long-lasting immunity, short-lasting immunity, or why, in a few cases, at least, survivors seem to have no antibodies to the disease at all.
We do not know how to treat it, at least not very well, with some doctors suggesting in recent days that the conventional use of ventilators on end-stage COVID-19 patients may be ineffective at best, and possibly even damaging.
There is more we do not know than what we do know.
There’s been a lot of talk (and books) about Donald Trump’s fragile mental health. He’s been diagnosed as, among many things, pathological narcissist, psychopath, and bipolar. Whichever mental illness you choose (believe or don’t believe), the coronavirus has pushed him into a dangerous decompensation.
ReplyDeleteWhat is psychological decompensation? Basically, it’s when a mentally-compromised person suddenly faces reality – stripped of the lies and delusions that enabled him to be functional. In other words, Trump’s fantasy world is collapsing – everyone is seeing that the Emperor wears no clothes.
You might think that would make him more fragile? It’s the opposite – he becomes more defiant, more rigid, and more like a boy-king. He further twists time and reality. According to Dr. Bandy X Lee, forensic psychiatrist at Yale School of Medicine and editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump:
“As his rallies were canceled, he used daily press conferences for his emotional compulsion to create a desired, alternative reality, through delusional-level distortion and misinformation, rather than saving lives.”
In other words, he reads the script at his television briefings then says whatever he wants as long as he thinks it makes him looks good – truth be damned.
Smelly is your fundio, baboso!
ReplyDelete@Anonymous You are a capitalist war-mongering price gouging zealot! The GUILLOTINE awaits you and your ilk! OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!!
ReplyDelete@Anonymous A few definitions might be helpful in this 'discussion'.....
ReplyDelete'food' as such, is not a commodity; the labour involved in harvesting produces value for the workers who perform said labour
'community store' = local distribution center
'markup' = a capitalist's way of securing profit from the labour of workers
chickens are not workers; chickens produce eggs in order to perpetuate the species
Labour is the only determinant of value; chickens produce eggs.....where is the labour?
(spoiler: there is no labour involved; eggs relate to re-production, not production)
humans steal eggs and 'offer' (via the open market) eggs to other humans for an artificial 'value' defined in terms of 'price', which today = dollars (US)
For further information I refer you to the world's largest collection of works on this topic:
Marxists.org
I hope this clears things up a bit for you!
An old fuck in his 70s like you should keep his mouth shut. Go Sofie Benavides!
ReplyDelete@Anonymous Ah! The ever popular ad hominem approach! Good job! You have thusly proven your absolute moral and intellectual bankruptcy, having failed to comprehend the most basic principles set forth in this 'discussion'. To the dustbin of history with you and your ilk! Your cruel, barbaric attitude will no longer prevail.
ReplyDeleteOh, suck my hard Pancho Villa dick, you insipid asshole!
DeleteWhen we look back at history, what we would have seen from Barack Obama back through Harry Truman is an American president calling for an international convention on pandemics, about how we bring the world together, how American leadership can drive toward a solution. Instead, we have the American delegation saying no to a communique because they won’t use the word ‘Wuhan flu.’
ReplyDeleteSo it’s theater of the absurd that tops off every evening at the 6 o’clock follies where the American people are lied to nonstop, where he sows confusion, where he sows division, where he attacks the people who need help the most. We’ve never seen a dereliction of duty, we’ve never seen a level of unfitness for command, we have never seen a president more visibly failing hour by hour to meet the moment, to meet the test of history than we’re seeing with Donald John Trump, the 45th president of the United States.
And I think by the time we get to the end of it, someone who will be universally regarded by historians, along with [James] Buchanan, the 15th president, who prefaced the Civil War, as the worst commander in chief in American history.
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.
ReplyDeleteEveryone has a right to be stupid but Comrade Anonymous abuses the privilege
Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.
The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!
Yep...a personality disordered narcissist personalizing something. Imagine that!
ReplyDeleteTrump's celebrations (plural. Now, more than once) of his TV ratings built on a stunning national tragedy...and the bodies of sick and dead Americans...is the MOST repugnant thing I have witnessed from a President of the United States in a fairly long life that has encompassed twelve presidencies.
I doubt that ANY of us can imagine George W. Bush, amidst the horror of 9/11 and upon hearing his approval went to 90%+ being caught on a live mic saying, "Am I doing an awesome job or what! The American people LOVE me more than ANY other president EVER!"
But, with Donald Trump such bragging, self-congratulatory, sickening behavior is typical. Sure, we have most cases of Covid-19 and deaths in the world, but BE HAPPY.
There's GREAT NEWS. Donald Trump is a TV RATINGS HIT!
I do not believe that $3.99 for a dozen eggs qualifies as price gouging in these times. I don't think it's even a close call. And, frankly, I don't think you should publish a hit piece against a local independent grocer over something so trivial. Over the decades El Globo has been my go-to store in times of crisis. During hurricanes and pestilence, I have found that I can always count on El Globo to be uncrowded and fully stocked. When other stores have empty shelves, Globo has meat, bread, eggs, milk, and fresh fruits and vegetables. And while the shopping experience may not be as pretty or as pleasant as it is at the GucciB, I think we can all appreciate a local grocer that caters to the working man.
ReplyDeleteWith Trump, it’s a fact: He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
ReplyDeleteTrump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. All our heroes are plucky underdogs. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug.
America is supposed to be the 'most powerful country' but can't even send two one time checks to help during a crisis? Canadians are already getting their money ($2,000 ) and it's a monthly thing!
ReplyDeleteNext check to Americans needs to be north of $3,000.
You are getting your money late because the President thinks it is more important that his name be on the Stimulus check than that you are able to pay your bills on time. This is not a rhetorical flourish. The checks are delayed. Because of Trump.
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