{"id":3828,"date":"2008-09-25T10:32:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T15:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2008-09-25T10:32:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T15:32:18","slug":"a_surcharge_on_hot_air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/a_surcharge_on_hot_air.html","title":{"rendered":"A Surcharge On Hot Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/25\/nyregion\/25surcharge.html?ex=1380081600&#038;en=5d0e8ee6bf68d4ab&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">Yada yada yada<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The latest sign of the rising cost of everything greets shoppers at the registers of Eli&#8217;s fine-food warehouse on the Upper East Side like a slap with a wet fish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Attention customers,&#8221; the sign reads. &#8220;An energy surcharge of 1.8 percent will be added to every purchase.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Look down at the receipt and sure enough, there it is, right below the totaled items: another add-on that yanks the price of an $8.99 pound of fresh figs to $9.15.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>[Eli] Zabar, whose greenness quotient is such that he uses the excess heat from his bakery a few blocks away to warm his rooftop greenhouses, said that joking was the last thing on his mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could have easily just raised prices in the store &#8212; which we do all the time anyway,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I&#8217;m making a statement here. This is to make my customers aware of the differences of running a food business, as opposed to any other kind of business. The infrastructure that powers a supermarket is huge &#8212; the perishability, yada yada yada. The ice that keeps the fish fresh. It takes a lot of energy to roast coffee.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yada yada yada: The latest sign of the rising cost of everything greets shoppers at the registers of Eli&#8217;s fine-food warehouse on the Upper East Side like a slap with a wet fish. &#8220;Attention customers,&#8221; the sign reads. &#8220;An energy surcharge of 1.8 percent will be added to every purchase.&#8221; Look down at the receipt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what_will_they_think_of_next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3829,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions\/3829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}