> It would be interesting to know which items are their loss-leaders... ;-)

Usually very common items (bread etc), also usually placed at the back of 
the shop so that you have to be tempted by 31434 other items before you get 
there.

> I just find it interesting that shops of all kinds are *always* 
> advertising that their prices are going down and down and down.

Ermm yeh, it helps get people to go to that store rather than a competitor.

> So, like, why didn't you do this sooner? (And besides, as far as *I* can 
> tell, the actual prices rise and fall more or less at random, and they 
> only advertise the ones that have fallen. I'm surprised that's legal...)

Why? There's no law that says you have to advertise your entire product 
range or not at all.

> Does it worry anybody *else* here that when all the oil runs out in 10 
> years' time, the nations of the world are basically going to have a global 
> thermonuclear war over the rights to the last remaining few drops?

Long before oil actually runs out there are going to be cheaper 
alternatives.  Industries that are reliant on oil today will gradually shift 
as prices increase.

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