I think you're alone if your spending has remained constant. I don't know of a single grocery item that I buy that hasn't gone up in price significantly. My w

I think you're alone if your spending has remained constant. I don't know of a single grocery item that I buy that hasn't gone up in price significantly. My wife used to work for a well known food brand. Somewhat early on in the pandemic grocery stores raised their prices for that brand's products, even though they weren't paying any more for the product. Eventually the brand did raise their own prices as they decided they'd rather have that money themselves. In both cases it was as simple as other prices being raised, consumers had the money to spend, so why not?