Indeed it is not much different here in [redacted]. To answer your question: "Not sure why the UK is being singled out." The answer to me is simply that it is

Indeed it is not much different here in [redacted]. To answer your question: "Not sure why the UK is being singled out." The answer to me is simply that it is a UK website www.grocerygazette.co.uk There are plenty of similar stories about the same kind of inflation here in [redacted] such as [redacted]. With Hacker News being predominately English speaking I suspect plays into why we see more US and UK (and other English speaking countries) related posts vs non-English speaking. And of course people do love to point out where the UK is suffering these days to put a Brexit spin on it (whether fair or not) as it gets them clicks. Much like a famous or young person dying is almost always reported as "died suddenly" these days regardless of nature of death as it gets clicks with all the anti-vax crowd.