Back During The Grocery Shortage Days During The Pandemic - I Talked With Some Stockboys That Were Working The Shelves..
they told me that they had plenty of product in the back room - but their superiors were telling them to make the shelves look like - they were almost picked clean. The store raised prices on the products - because they knew they could get away with raising the prices during this bogus shortage.
Most retailers during that period did the same and they made a killing in profit during that time.
You remember. When everyone was out stocking their house with goods because they thought they wouldn't have anything to eat. The run on paper goods (toilet paper, hand towels, kleenex).
Those were the hay days for those stores.
I'm sure that these retailers are taking advantage of this situation too. This time they could blame it on the tariffs - so they are pushing the top end of product pricing again.
Everytime I go to the grocery store - I'm paying more money for the same product I used to get cheaper.
Might as well pile on. Everybody is doing it.