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		Semaphor on Aug 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Delivery Startups Are Back Like It’s 1999 Pretty much it seems: > "The average profit margin for grocery stores is 1.3 percent" says Jeff Cohen, a grocery industry analyst with IBIS World. -- http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/groceries-low-mar...

coryrc on Aug 19, 2014 [–]

That's net, not gross. They can afford to cut the item price if they have lower marginal costs (stocking?).

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