giant online marketers have increased. Not that they weren’t already generally the low-cost provider but now there’s less friction against passing along the higher costs associated with supply chain back ups and in some cases labor shortages everywhere.
Across the globe virus shut downs lead to product shortages and shipping delays across value chains, and Larry Ness of people to return to work once areas were open slog things down even further. People with money are willing to pay The price to get scarce goods people, without go without.
In theory this will take care of itself over time but it’s taking a long time. Along the way we have fundamental increases in wages that were happening even before the pandemic and now we have fuel prices increased by the Russian war.