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To be fair, although definitely some corporations are doing this, others are adapting to market circumstances caused by a few actors.

For example, if you're a retailer selling pretty much anything now, your costs are up significantly across various different streams: your rent is up, your utilities bills are up, your logistics costs are up, the wholesale price of the products you stock is up... you have no choice but to increase your prices to stay afloat. That drives a spiral because now not only are your prices higher, you also have to raise your staff's wages because they can no longer afford to buy the products you sell, pushing you to increase your prices, and so on.

Now, you are a contributor to inflation through no fault of your own, despite the key increases in cost coming from, ultimately, rising fuel costs impacting across the whole supply chain.

I agree that record corporate profits are a key indicator (although probably this should be considered in context of inflation also, rather than just the raw dollar amounts).