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      1 year ago

      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.

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          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.