Re: Sure makes you want to throw up

In <dn7bk9$9ep$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Harry Weiss <hjweiss@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Steve Goldfarb <slg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In <m33bl4yesy.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Don Levey <Don_SCJM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> >>
>> >Giora, we've been through this one before. Can you show us real numbers
>> >on how this increases prices to the end concumer?

>> Well, any time you restrict supply you're going to increase prices -- so
>> kosher-certified food is probably always going to be more expensive than
>> uncertified, and stricter certifications with fewer purchasers are going
>> to be more expensive than a broader certification that has more
>> purchasers.

>> But that's not a "tax" or anything like that. Same thing would apply with
>> any sort of desired certification - organic, branding, celebrity
>> endorsement, whatever.

>> --s
>> --
>Not true. Walk through the supermarket and compare items with suprevision to those
>that have none. There is no difference in price. Keebler cookies without
>supervision is similar in price to Nabisco which has and more than store brand which
>has.

>The same applies to almost everything that has supervisoin, except for those that are
>solely for the Jewish community, and then you are correct about restricting supply.

Good point, I should have said it would increase the price if it decreases
supply. If it doesn't, then it won't.

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