41 sats \ 4 replies \ @elvismercury 30 May \ parent \ on: Zimbabwe Memoirs BooksAndArticles
Price controls are attempted but they intentionally create loopholes otherwise everyone would starve.
This was a fascinating detail, I never would have thought of it! Thanks for the additional color.
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118 sats \ 3 replies \ @freetx 30 May
Yea, really was to me too.
Said it would be regular brand name box-bread. Same branding on bag, same name, etc. It would just have a shop-placed sticker that said "Raisin Bread" and they would drop a single raisin into each bag....hahaha
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 30 May
Panera Bread tried to avoid California minimum wage law by calling itself artisanal bread maker
https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/03/01/gavin-newsom-panera-exception/
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 30 May
Hahaha. Aren't politicians great?!?
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 30 May
Snopes is also left leaning
Their take is usually the opposite of the truth
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