They used supply chain issues as an excuse to raise the price of all of their products to obscene levels, and then never brought the prices back down after the supply chains resolved, if that even was a real issue in the first place. I guess they figured people don’t really have the option to just not buy food.
It’s not inflation, it’s collusion. You don’t get to have record profits for four years with 20% “inflation”.
Collusion plus the fact that a significant portion of food brands are owned by a handful of companies: https://botcrawl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Companies-Own-The-Food-We-Eat-Infographic.png
They used supply chain issues as an excuse to raise the price of all of their products to obscene levels, and then never brought the prices back down after the supply chains resolved, if that even was a real issue in the first place. I guess they figured people don’t really have the option to just not buy food.
Almost as if monopolies aren’t good for consumers. Weird.