>Grocery stores across Newfoundland and Labrador have been struggling to keep hard bread in stock since a fire at the Purity factory in March put a crimp in the company’s baking operations.
Is it really that hard to raise the price to keep it in stock?
close04•38m ago
Raising the price doesn't increase the supply, it just selects who can access it. Most of the people will still not get it, just for a different reason.
card_zero•34m ago
That implies that everything with a price is always out of stock.
squigz•27m ago
No, it implies that everything with a price and a supply issue will likely still face that supply issue even with a higher price.
card_zero•24m ago
Everything with a price has a supply issue.
squigz•22m ago
No, it doesn't.
card_zero•21m ago
Oh, OK.
squigz•20m ago
I'm really glad we sorted this out.
bluecheese452•24m ago
It implies no such thing.
card_zero•19m ago
The presence of a price "selects who can access it", hence there's not enough stock to give it away for free. (Sometimes deliberately.)
mhluongo•32m ago
A higher margin increases the incentive for people to make more, though.
Simulacra•39m ago
Wow, this is actually interesting, I had not heard of people eating hard attack since the American
Civil War. But looking at a map, it doesn't look that difficult to get to, so I'm curious why not just fly it in?
chocochunks•17m ago
Because no one else really eats it or makes it. AFAIK that Purity factory is the only one in Canada making it and outside of Newfoundland it's hard to find on a normal day even in the rest of Atlantic Canada. And when you do, it's the Purity version shipped over. It's very much a Newfoundland food.
charcircuit•43m ago
Is it really that hard to raise the price to keep it in stock?
close04•38m ago
card_zero•34m ago
squigz•27m ago
card_zero•24m ago
squigz•22m ago
card_zero•21m ago
squigz•20m ago
bluecheese452•24m ago
card_zero•19m ago
mhluongo•32m ago