Typically it doesn't end well for the customer when government bodies try to determine a fair price for a product or service. For products or services that are essential, highly complex or monopolized there's a case for government involvement but I don't think that food delivery in Alameda is essential, complex or a monopoly.

Companies, at least profitable ones, are cold-hearted and calculating, they will not leave because of spite they will stay if they can make money and leave if they can't. It all depends on what the fee limit is.

Can you clarify exactly what is the commodity? The source link only goes to the OEC homepage.

If we total the $ per quarter in 2022 we get to approximately $600m. If we are talking about 1.2 million standard cargo ship containers then the price per container is only around $500 which would be cheap even for used containers.

Considering that there around 65 million shipping containers on the planet then a single country purchasing 1.2 million new is huge purchase for something which has a lifespan of around 20 years.

What about steak, mushroom, pork, chicken, fish, venison etc.?

I missed it in the long list, this is based on the 1991 census, I'm sure it's higher now

What about English? Even back in 1991 I think there were children of parents with different mother tongues, living in major cities who learned English before other languages and spoke English at home.

Thank you for the correction

If the median days on market increased by 24 days during a 30 day month that implies that sales have fallen off a cliff.

West Central Florida's red zone coincides with the area damaged by Hurricane Ian.