It's not ridculous at all, it's the actual tradeoff that has to happen in order for prices not to go up. For example, someone elsewhere in the discussion was co

It's not ridculous at all, it's the actual tradeoff that has to happen in order for prices not to go up. For example, someone elsewhere in the discussion was complaining about US egg prices - supermarkets here in the UK are extremely competitive and reluctant to raise prices, with the inevitable consequence that our egg prices are still normal but there weren't actually eggs on the shelves most of the time.