Sometime it's right, sometime it's wrong... It very depends on the profit margin, providing that the set price has a "reasonable return".
As a consumer, no one would like to spend more than they need to. But, you can't win every time... Otherwise it's just a price battle between businesses, and no one get win finally... You can't blame those large retailers too much, they ordered large quantity and they need to handle inventory carefully...作者: Lik 時間: 2011-10-27 10:05
HK is very much a free market economy, and those big retailers had used these very same price wars to drive out their competition in the past. So now that they've gotten themselves a near monopoly, they are suddenly turning around to point fingers at other competitors that try to do the same?
呢啲咪叫做輸打贏要同無恥囉?
-Lik作者: ivanfox 時間: 2011-10-27 10:10
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肥明呢次都真係講得幾廢。有MSRP又有乜野問題?如果只係做參考嘅話,咁當然無問題,又點會唔健康?
但講到尾,問題始終係出於供應商同大零售商兩幫人之間。
-力作者: mcjohnjohn 時間: 2011-10-30 18:35
HK is very much a free market economy, and those big retailers had used these very same price wars t ...
Lik 發表於 2011-10-28 02:05
I only have soft drink once in a while in the summer...作者: 快樂牛郎 時間: 2011-10-31 12:46
how come there was never any violence in HK
we need more bombers作者: Catpiano 時間: 2011-10-31 13:30
Same here la...
My in law used to run grocery store, their cost was actually higher then price from Costco/Superstore etc .. (say Coke/Pespi etc)
Well, back to the 80's and even 90's they were doing OK, people were willing to pay more from grocery store .. not anymore .. when their cost keeps rising ..作者: Lik 時間: 2011-10-31 14:50
C Hing, you got the issue backwards, man.
What's happening in HK now is, the grocery story is selling stuff at lower prices than the big chains, so the big chains are not happy. It is likely that the big chains are pressuring the wholeseller/distributor to "do something about the grocery store" so that it won't/can't sell at prices lower than what the big chains are selling.
Resorting to tactics like that is clearly anti-competitive la.
If HK has competition / antitrust laws, there may well be a legal case on this.
-Lik作者: puwawa01 時間: 2011-11-6 02:35
sigh~ there are similar situation happened in Vancouver too....sigh....