Yes, you can get your coffee cheaper at a gas station, go to Best Buy to get a cheap knockoff tablet or buy some rotgut at your local liquor store. Or you can go to Taco Bell to get your burrito on the cheap if you don't want to pay the price that Chipotle charges.
I'm surprised with some of the negative comments here about out capitalist system.
When asking a premium price becomes price fixing (as Sony and other major music publishers did with their illegally negotiated price gouge on CDs), it is criminal.
capitalism doesn’t have to equal crime.
The article sustains my point that their peers (and not just restaurants but even competing candy manufacturers) are all agreeing to hike their prices at the same time. Coincidence?