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Trafficsigntruther t1_itroslw wrote

Reply to comment by lordredsnake in Controller Rebecca Rhynhart to resign today and launch run for mayor by jberk988

They aren’t his soda taxes. Like Kenney said, it’s a tax on the soda companies, not on consumers.

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lordredsnake t1_itrsb3o wrote

The bottlers/distributors pass it on to retailers as a political statement. Some retailers eat it entirely or partially. Jeff Brown has made it his biggest political issue and passes it on 100% to consumers, and puts signs throughout his stores pointing the finger at the city for people's sugary beverages costing more. It's his decision to charge consumers for the entirety of the amount of the tax.

On a completely different note, his stores in poor neighborhoods have THE MOST sensitive self-checkout sensors. If you bring your own bag and put it in the wrong place, it starts blaring alarms at you because he treats all of his customers like criminals.

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Trafficsigntruther t1_its5mui wrote

> Some retailers eat it entirely or partially

How many of them are local retailers? Zero.

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> The bottlers/distributors pass it on to retailers as a political statement.

It’s a tax that is close to 100% of sales. How do you expect them to absorb it?

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lordredsnake t1_itsgo26 wrote

What's your point? Jeff Brown also pays his workers less than other retailers. We should applaud him though because he's local?

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Trafficsigntruther t1_itsmig4 wrote

That a national retailer might want to keep prices consistent across their stores and can spread the losses of selling soda in Philly across the nation. Brown has like two store outside the city so he can’t do that.

> Jeff Brown also pays his workers less than other retailers.

Aren’t his workers unionized?

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lordredsnake t1_itt8szk wrote

Brown doesn't just sell soda, he has other goods to spread the costs to. His stores are largely in poorer neighborhoods and I don't shed a tear for someone who wants to charge poor people 100% of a tax to make a political statement.

His stores are unionized, and yet big bad Amazon pays its Whole Foods employees better.

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