From: Xela@yabbs
To: issachar@yabbs
Subject: supermarkets and energy
Date: Mon Mar 28 10:39:16 1994

you said:
"how is a supermarket directly dependent upon oil for the prices of food?
"


Well, I can think of a number of things which make supermarkets dependent 
on oil, and a more expensive oil would be reflected in the price of the 
food it sells.  For example, all the plastic packaging which the 
supermarket uses (not even the packaging for processed food) for bagging, 
for meat packaging, for bakery packaging, for milk bottles, etc etc.  Then 
there are the costs of running open refrigerators which hold frozen and 
refrigerated goods...that consumes massive amounts of energy, which is 
directly related to the cost of oil.  If the price were to increase, in 
order to make the All-Godly profit the sprmkt. would without a doubt raise 
food prices in concert.

Let me know if this seems too far-fetched, but I think that is why.

Alex