[Skybird]

Evolution is about adaptation to changing conditions in changing environments. Be successful, and live. Fail, and go extinct.

I have seen raises in prices claimed to be base don service -while service was not there or was bad. Also, I saw enormous price increases over several years.

When I have a good shop, I accept to pay a bit more there. I know it. But this plus that I will to pay, must have a counter value in service or quality, and it has limits. And I define what limits I accept, and what is off limit - not them and their needs and wishes.

City centres will suffer from the fall of local shops and big warehouses. Well, I have no answer to that. Thats how it goes.

I try to diversify my buyings, nevertheless. I do not always buy in the same place and supermarket. I refuse to buy everything from Amazon or othe rplatforms that already are de facto monopolists in many niches and branchges of their business. I try to avoid helping monopolism. I also dop not like to depend on just one pricder of things, and by that also allwojg n him to profile me better. I want to remain a random event in their schemes.

Buying "bio", "eco", "politically correct", "fair trade" etc, gets zero recognition from me. ZERO. Many according labels achieve right the opposite of what they intend, fair traded coffee for example is anything but about fair trade, it simply is stupid, it motivates farmers selling their better beans separately and for higher than the fair trade prices, and only delivering their inferior, bad beans (that are so bad that otherwise they cannot sell to anyone else) into the fair trade mechanism with its guaranteed minimum and bonus prices - that way consumers pay overpriced prices for uncompetitive, bad coffee, supporting a first class market manipulation scheme. Getting ripped off and being proud of it! Thats what they do not tell you on TV about fair trade coffee. It shoudl better be labelled as "stupid coffee". Oh, and the eU energy coksummation labels and CO2 emission numbers and stuff like that I also completely ignore - the latter always, the first almost always. I do not buy a refrigerator to save the world, I buy a refrigerator to save my food and cool it. If that can be done with a reaosnable abalncx ebetween price and power consumption, nice, but if there is some ideologically hypped low power rate advertised at too high price, I ignore it. Realistic pragmatism. The ideology part can be taken care of by those who feel concerned, I do not. I maybe did, long time ago, but I grew older since then - and apparently wiser.