That's a very misleading stat, Baraka. Triple that $423, and that will be the amount that every family pays to have their purchases shipped to the stores for sale in the first place. How much does the rent on commercial space cost every family every year? Without any statistical information on other costs, that number is competely meaningless.
We could also talk about the price of milk in the US and how the price is almost an imaginary number based on subsidies, but that doesn't have much to do with companies treating their customers with hostility.
At the end of the day, the "real price" of any given item is significantly effected by numerous factors including insurance, rent, transportation, breakage/spoilage, salaries, dividends, etc. Simply pulling one of those numbers out and presenting it on makes for a sexy story but nothing of substance.
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