[[I’ve not seen shortages or inflated prices anywhere.]]
You haven’t’ been to Amazon lately? $20 for a 24 pack of pepsi that i can buy in walmart for $8- Amazon sellers are really price gouging right now- but yeah- local shops like walmart I’m not seeing increased prices either- I am however seeing shortages- 2 months now- people still are panic buying- many many empty shelves- Things like flour, noodles, sugar, canned stuff like soups, canned meats, things like pickles- all bare shelves- toilet paper- forget a bout it- lysol, hand sanitizer, isopropyl alcohol- nope- they are all more rare than big foot-
As for the Amazon prices, you are not factoring the fees Amazon charges to sell on their platform. Amazon takes at least a 1/3 of the sell price and shipping takes another 1/3.
Amazon shipping has fallen thru, too.
I used to be I could get next shipping, as part of my Prime membership. Now things are taking two or three weeks.
I bought some things recently from Ebay that had free shipping and arrived within the week.