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Businesses are going to innovate in how they bring prices down so people can shop the way they want.

People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford to ignore the impacts their buying practices have on producers and on the perceptions and choices of consumers.

We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.

If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.

Although everyone does benefit from lower-priced goods and services, people also care greatly about the chance to be productively employed and the quality of their work. Declining employment opportunities feel real and immediate; the rise in real incomes brought by lower prices does not.

We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation.

In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product.

If prices drop, we have to protect farmers from distress; if prices rise, we should be ready to pay market rates.

We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.

We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.