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> Won’t a better option be subsidizing taxes for grocery stores, and let the discounts competitively pass unto the customers?

I'm sure this time trickle-down economics will work and not simply line the pockets of business owners



It's not trickling down. Lower costs do result in lower prices.


When you have a highly competitive market with plenty of actors lower cost does trickle down. Otherwise you’re talking about an extremely complicated cartel which cannot exist.


Do we have a highly competitive market? If so how do we measure that? If not how do we create one?




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