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Costco’s profit margins have been going up (although by very small amounts) for many years.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/COST/costco/profit...

Costco doesn’t believe in lossleaders AND they have a policy of limiting their profit margins to a fixed percentage. So it seems like the would be perfect for comparisons.

eyeroll I give you a direct example of a 50% price increase and you just blah blah with some irrelevant bs

Ok, then let's look at my local Safeway. Shit is OUTRAGEOUS. If you don't think groceries haven't gone up 30/40/50% then apparently you don't look at any prices while you shop.

Restaurants are outrageous but you don't need to eat out.

Look here: https://www.rabato.com/us/shoprite/weekly-ad/LEipqw

And here: https://www.rabato.com/us/shoprite/weekly-ad/KZiQw3p

Things are not 50%. Some items, some brands, yes. But you can always cherry-pick anything, always.

Chicken is actually CHEAPER today. Crazy (but that was covid supply chain issues I guess, so now I'm cherry-picking)