[breezybottom]

Food prices can change significantly depending on natural disasters, diseases, supply chain issues. There's more uncertainty than you acknowledge.

[rvba]

People have to eat. They dont need to play games, especially bad games.

Or they play some indie game like Among Us and not some big studio expensive game.

[tracker1]

The stores themselves aren't losing money if there's a natural disaster.. the farm does, the distributor likely does.. but not the store. The store just raises prices against future inventory pricing, often ahead of the inventory itself.