Holiday Premium - the supermarkets cashing in....

As I laid out for yez a week or so ago about mass immigration causing an extra number of 'consumers' placing pressure on supply and thus raising prices .... here in Resortville there are a couple of annual rushes of Outlanders who sop up all the eggs and stuff from the supermarkets - increased market forces on supply, you understand - giving the supermarkets the opportunity to raise prices due to short supply.

Once they are gone it takes a while for 'market forces' to begin to exert downward pressure on pricing due to lack of people sopping up all the eggs ... in the meantime the supermarkets are lapping it up.... as usual.

They PLAN things this way... knowing that the supermarkets where the Bloody Tourists come from will run pretty much as normal, since the BTs are drawn in small numbers from each store in the Smoke's 'catchment' and thus hardly affect sales - and yet even there the supermarkets take the opportunity to raise prices citing 'shortage' and 'gold rush' due to holidays ...

Takes a lot of work to explain simple things ... but you all know that anyway.