I agree with your remedy. If you don’t like the price, don’t buy. That’s how the free market works.
Personally, I think the current inflation is due mainly to Covid-fractured supply chains, not Biden’s money printing, or any “price gouging”.
I say that because inflation has been a worldwide phenomenon, and some products have been entirely unaffected. I love chocolate, and the chocolate I love is selling now for the 2019 price. It hasn’t gone up by a penny. Maybe that’s because chocolate doesn’t come from China, but many other things do!
This summer, cherries have been less expensive than anytime since I was a boy. I’ve been buying large bags from the local market for 99 cents a pound, over and over. I remember as a boy paying 59 cents a pound for cherries in the 1950s, and paying with silver coins.
The combination of Big Pharma’s corporate greed and government police powers has proved quite deadly for the American people. But I don’t think the government has been responsible for helping corporations to maintain higher prices for general merchandise. If you have any specific examples where they have, please give them.
I watch my family’s food budget pretty carefully and overall, food is up a LOT more than the gov’t says. How is it that those supply chains are still disrupted?
P.S. I’m jealous about the cherries. Black Cherries? My wife loves ‘em, but in my neck of the woods, even at Aldi I’ve only seen them under $2.99 / lb. once this summer. Granted I could have missed a sale or two.
Wifey just bought a combo pack of Frito-Lay chips, 27.something oz., for my daughter for some school function. $14.98. Earlier tonight @ Wally World. I just about passed out. I’d passed on a ~3 lb. pack of bone-in pork steaks. On clearance (sell by date code today) for $4.09 / lb.
Hoping cooler weather regularly arrives soon, so I can do more evening catfishing without losing 3 lbs. in sweat.