[senordevnyc]

When prices increase too much or too quickly however that's when people get upset and assume greed unless they are primed to accept it with some excuse.

Yeah, and then what do they do? I assume they don't stop buying groceries because they're pissed about the assumed greed. Do you really think people are switching grocery stores because they think Kroger is being greedy, but Safeway is altruistic and just raising their prices because of inflation?

[autoexec]

They still need to buy food, but when the price of something goes up too fast they look for cheaper alternatives to what they normally buy or just stop buying certain things entirely. It's rare the cost for the cost of everything to spike all at the same time. It's happened before though when fuel prices were really high, it happened during the early days of the covid pandemic, and it's happening now with inflation being the excuse.

When the cost of everything goes up like it has now people actually do change their habits and shop at different stores looking for better prices (walmart, aldi, costco) when they have the option.

"More than 8 in 10 Americans changed how they buy groceries last year. They hunted for sales, switched to cheaper brands and stopped buying goods they once considered essential." (https://fooddrinklife.com/inflation-grocery-shopping/)

See also: https://www.savings.com/insights/80-percent-us-adults-cut-ba...

[fluoridation]

I don't get it. Do Americans not get inflation/COL corrections by default in their salaries? Inflation drives the price of everything up, including salaries. If that doesn't happen then it's not inflation, it's just salary cuts across the board.