[HN Gopher] Pepsi, Coke soda pricing targeted in new federal probe
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       Pepsi, Coke soda pricing targeted in new federal probe
        
       Author : DocFeind
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2023-01-10 21:03 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | scohesc wrote:
       | Let's not look at politicians and senators insider trading.
       | 
       | Let's not look at simplifying the tax code to make it
       | easier/cheaper/free for normal people to file taxes and harder
       | for the rich and powerful to hide their wealth.
       | 
       | Let's not look at the earth's climate changing and how we're
       | going to need to adapt to that in the coming decades.
       | 
       | Yes - let's look at how (honestly quite delicious and addictive)
       | sugar water and their shills are using preferential pricing from
       | a century's old law.
       | 
       | Keep being distracted with petty squabbles, and we won't see the
       | wool being pulled over our eyes for the things that _really_
       | matter.
        
         | bsder wrote:
         | Any and all anti-trust actions are _good_ things.
         | 
         | Many of the problems we are currently experiencing are due to
         | the fact that there is no real competition between companies.
         | It looks like there is, but when you trace the supply chain
         | backwards you eventually converge to a single supplier.
         | Consequently, it _doesn 't matter_ how you spend your money
         | because it always lands in the same company.
         | 
         | Sure, expensive fizzy water seems like a First World
         | Problem(tm). However, PepsiCo and Coke are huge conglomerates
         | and any action against them is welcome.
        
         | freejazz wrote:
         | "Keep being distracted with petty squabbles, and we won't see
         | the wool being pulled over our eyes for the things that
         | _really_ matter."
         | 
         | Not with your contributions. Thank you for your service.
        
         | xen2xen1 wrote:
         | I would agree, but there are lots and lots of rackets going on
         | right now, so I'm not going to complain. I might complain that
         | they are not ALSO going after others, but not for this? Have
         | you heard about why all the McDonald's ice cream machines are
         | messed up all theantic time? 100% anticompetitive monopoly
         | bullcrap. It's just ice cream, but it's still bad for
         | consumers, and stupid.
        
       | amalgamated_inc wrote:
       | Yes, expensive soda is the problem of our times.
        
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