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Americans' refusal to keep paying higher prices may be dealing a final blow to US inflation spike. (www.voanews.com)

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[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

When the CEOs (Kroger, looking at you) are literally bragging on quarterly earnings calls about raising prices and keeping them there just because they can - we call that Price Gouging. If only we had some kind of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that could help to regulate these greedy business practices…