tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995346500810873164.post4332545251405757717..comments2024-03-26T17:43:56.256-04:00Comments on piccolo's hash: Food deserts is a term I have heard lately.piccolohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185649590699727649noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995346500810873164.post-37127805190002084412014-02-16T10:41:41.753-05:002014-02-16T10:41:41.753-05:00Tobacco products (aka cigarettes) is one of the it...Tobacco products (aka cigarettes) is one of the items that has the highest smuggling rate in many EUSSR countries. Simply because the stuff is taxed ridiculously high. A pack of normal cigarettes here in Austria now goes for around €5 which is almost $7. Of course people then start smuggling because you can make a pretty penny with it. <br /><br />Nobody has yet started to smuggle cigars or pipe tobacco, so my little habit hasn't been hit yet. I doubt anybody ever will, the market isn't that big to begin with.<br /><br />As for Robert Reich... he was on Clinton's team. Clinton's idiocy essentially caused the housing bubble so he should probably be silent.<br /><br />Blaming the rich and Wall Street is always easy, but I'm pretty convinced that manager X from company Y puts a lot more money back into the economy than the vast majority of whiners. Especially the "occupy" kids with their thousands of Apple products.<br /><br />Today's economic problems are solely to be found in the governments trying to regulate everything.<br /><br />The EUSSR's light bulb chaos and the "green energy" disaster are prime examples.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995346500810873164.post-9506139796889759362014-02-06T12:07:56.730-05:002014-02-06T12:07:56.730-05:00Sorry, Mr. Piccolo, I didn't mean to sound so ...Sorry, Mr. Piccolo, I didn't mean to sound so abrupt. Let me say that I enjoy your blogs, and I appreciate your taking the time to write them. <br /><br />I just don't think the economy is as simple as that. Sure, maybe poor people should work harder, but Wall Streeters skimming so much money off the top of the economy is making life so much harder for everyone else, and more and more economists like former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich are saying the exact same thing, that inequity of wealth and income are an underlying cause of many of todays economic problems.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995346500810873164.post-91351158033431267962014-02-06T11:56:33.211-05:002014-02-06T11:56:33.211-05:00For one thing tobacco products are very low profit...For one thing tobacco products are very low profit and unless you are moving a lot of cartons you are not making a whole lot of money. Tobacco items are one of the most commonly pilfered items out there and as a result have to be kept behind the counter.<br /><br />Most likely they will be replaced with more profitable and commonly pilfered items. <br /><br />Also they are likely jumping on the anti-tobacco bandwagon which is a draw for the health minded customers. Many drugstores are refusing to carry tobacco products.<br /><br />You can bet your boots that the people running CVS are not stupid and have figured a way to turn a profit on this decisionpiccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02185649590699727649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995346500810873164.post-27653152353249254722014-02-06T11:38:02.294-05:002014-02-06T11:38:02.294-05:00"The object of opening a business is to make ..."The object of opening a business is to make money. <br />It is as simple as that. "<br /><br />Oh yeah? Then why did CVS just stop selling tobacco products?<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com