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I don't understand how 'price gouging' could apply to grocery store food prices in the context of inflation, at all. If all prices are increasing, so food prices increase, how is that "price gouging"? And - if it's increasing much faster than inflation, how does inflation give them an opportunity to do so when they couldn't before
You use the motivation of inflation to raise prices across the board regardless of whether the price of an individual product increased or not.
Customers are largely locked in so they pay what they must as the oligopolistic market moves in uncoordinated unison.
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