• dragonlobster@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    Mixue. They’re suddenly just popping up everywhere, and the price of their ice cream/drinks is dirt cheap to a point where it doesn’t even make any sense. I understand that the cost of those ingredients are dirt cheap anyway, but there’s no way their margins cover operations, rent, labor.

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      8 months ago

      Multinational chain? More likely that they’re dumping to drive out local competition.

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        8 months ago

        Exactly what Walmart and Amazon did to become massive. Operate on losses until competition dies. Then jack those prices up.