{"id":23619,"date":"2021-11-30T13:46:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T18:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23619"},"modified":"2021-11-30T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T18:47:10","slug":"a-little-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23619","title":{"rendered":"A little rant&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.you know, I wonder why every damn corporation has to be so greedy&#8230;just last week, the dollar store that I go to announced it was going to raise prices by 25% to 1.25 per item, and the reason why was to ensure the profitability of the company&#8230;yeah, right&#8230;the company, Dollar Tree, had profits of almost 2 billion dollars last year and paid it&#8217;s ceo over 11 million dollars&#8230;.so my question as always is: how much is enough? Is it 3 billion or 10? If everything else stays the same, they will make another 500 million dollars in profit that will go straight through to the owners that really don&#8217;t need it and it will act like a tax for those of us that shop there&#8230;while I don&#8217;t have to, what happens to the people who are forced to shop at these types of stores because they can&#8217;t afford anywhere else? I wonder what would happen if just one of these assholes would say &#8220;hey, I&#8217;ve got enough&#8230;let&#8217;s hold the line to help our customers&#8221;&#8230;.yeah, never going to happen&#8230;every one of them is just too damn greedy&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.you know, I wonder why every damn corporation has to be so greedy&#8230;just last week, the dollar store that I go to announced it was going to raise prices by 25% to 1.25 per item, and the reason why was to ensure the profitability of the company&#8230;yeah, right&#8230;the company, Dollar Tree, had profits of almost &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23619\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A little rant&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3081],"class_list":["post-23619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-dollar-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23621,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23619\/revisions\/23621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}