> cost of fuel and transportation goes up > cost of everything goes up they are not "artificially" raising their prices. grocery and food always has a slim margin and relies on economy of scale. the prices went up because they can't afford to stay in business if they start taking losses. you are economically retarded and know absolutely nothing about this repeating the hilariously wrong "price gouging" talking point used by every leftist faggot. if this was actually happening another competing business would undercut the other guys to drive them out of business but that is not what's happening. everything is expensive because we've gutted our own energy sector so china can sell us "green solutions" to a problem the democrats invented to get rich on. that's why everything costs so much. when you raise the price of energy everything else goes up. lower the price of energy and it goes down. we can produce all our energy domestically, if we allowed it, which the democrats won't because muh carbon muh climate muh chinese kickbacks. tarrifs are good because our market is extremely valuable even if there were 100% tarrifs on everything they'd keep selling until they moved their manufacturing back here to save money. this would happen quickly because if they don't a new domestic business will out maneuver them now that they can compete on price.
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