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Dinner on a budget (lemmy.world)

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[–] Corkyskog 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

So, I vaguely remember a podcast talking about this. Maybe Reply All? But anyway, they will move into a market and pay the costs to establish a footing or something. A similar thing happened to a pizza shop and they were subsidizing it so much that the owners realized and took advantage.

Edit, I believe this is what I was remembering: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52724062

[–] mindbleach 4 points 3 months ago

In civilized countries that's called dumping, and it's a crime.