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eranationyesterday at 1:10 PM3 repliesview on HN

That’s an astonishing number. Wouldn’t that be more than enough to cause a decrease in grocery prices?


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eruyesterday at 1:48 PM

It depends on how elastic grocery prices are.

And so far it's 5.3% reduction in the spending of <16% of households on the drug for a total reduction of less than 1%. Compared to eg tariffs and general inflation, that's a bit hard to distinguish from noise.

mpyneyesterday at 1:18 PM

There are other major factors also influencing grocery prices, such as tariffs. It may because that was are seeing a significant influence on price, but one that is counteracted by other influencers.

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Traubenfuchsyesterday at 1:12 PM

Your assumption of the existence of a grocery market competing on price might be wrong.

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