canyonwalker | (Reply)

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Yeah, I've heard plenty of times that things like food are way more expensive in Alaska, like 3x the price in the continental US. It makes sense with how food isn't grown/produced there and must be shipped in via long supply chains. It wasn't clear to me that applies to everything in Alaska. Plus, commerce has gone global. "It costs 3x because of transportation costs" seems like an excuse from 50 years ago when so much of everything nowadays is shipped in from thousands of miles away. Stores in California sell produce from Mexico even though the same fruit can be grown locally. Clothes, electronics, and appliances routinely come from Asia. Cars are priced similarly whether they've arrived on a truck from Detroit or a container ship from Germany, Japan, or South Korea. Thus some of the pricing seems like gouging.