Supply chain is long and complex. If you were saying "everyone, stop buying bushels of wheat" then it would lower the cost, but not buying finished goods means they will not be produced.
I get what youre saying but the stores arent just going to throw it away. Theyll get hit with the cost. Its supply and demand. Let the market sort itself and government needs to keep its damn hand out of it.
you know how you will see things on clearance? Those are items that didn't sell well (exempting holiday related stuff) and when that contract is renegotiated it will be for a smaller quantity or the product will be dropped. The generic milk at my store got dropped, i talked to the manager and it was because they were losing too much of it.
Sticking with the milk thing, we could pretend that the dairy farmer is on slim margins (pays out and gets paid almost the same amount with just a little bit of profit); and fuel, feed (fuel, seed, fertilizer), upkeep (steel, labor, manufactured goods) market exposure dictate what they pay out. He has pretty much a required price he has to sell at, or he stops the operation. Bottling the milk has larger margins, but those companies would refuse to take a hit, so it is basically pay the price or don't buy the product in the future.
Yeah. Thats true.
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