this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
813 points (94.3% liked)
Mildly Infuriating
36197 readers
1265 users here now
Home to all things "Mildly Infuriating" Not infuriating, not enraging. Mildly Infuriating. All posts should reflect that.
I want my day mildly ruined, not completely ruined. Please remember to refrain from reposting old content. If you post a post from reddit it is good practice to include a link and credit the OP. I'm not about stealing content!
It's just good to get something in this website for casual viewing whilst refreshing original content is added overtime.
Rules:
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
...
2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means: -No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
...
3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
...
4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
...
5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
...
6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
...
7. Content should match the theme of this community.
-Content should be Mildly infuriating.
-The Community !actuallyinfuriating has been born so that's where you should post the big stuff.
...
8. Reposting of Reddit content is permitted, try to credit the OC.
-Please consider crediting the OC when reposting content. A name of the user or a link to the original post is sufficient.
...
...
Also check out:
Partnered Communities:
Reach out to LillianVS for inclusion on the sidebar.
All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Soda, which is even more than 10x the actual cost to the business. When I worked in a gas station in the 90s the cost for a 32oz soda in syrup, machinery, water, and maintenance was 3 cents. The cup, lid and straw cost 7 cents, so the drink as a whole cost the business 10 cents and was sold for $1 which is a 1000% markup.
Since sodas in restaurants go for around 3$ with refillable glasses I can't imagine they aren't marking that up somewhere between 500% - 1000% (5x to 10x).
No it isn't. It is literally accurate that some of the stuff is marked up really high and other stuff isn't. That was literally the point, and you clearly don't like being wrong and want to make the argument about something than the markup.
The point that other costs are significant and the markup is necessary would be good to switch to, but your point making a few dollars off a soda isn't much is wrong because businesses do make most of their costs back from certain items with high markup as that is the cost of doing business.
Overall they are on thin margins, which does not mean they aren't marking up some specific items many times their initial cost. In fact, if they didn't mark some stuff up that much they would go out of business.
But an average of thin margins overall because the building, tables, A/C, and other overhead is more than the good doesn't mean they don't have a high markup if you look at literal cost to retail pricing.
ON AVERAGE.
When you have an average, some things are marked up more and some things are marked up less. Some things that restaurants sell are barely marked up at all, and others are marked up a lot more. Hell, somethings cost them and they provide them at 0% of the cost like sauce packets!
By your five year old child logic they must get those packets for free because surely everything has a 200-250% markup!