Inflation is obviously real, but people are also forgetting what things were like when eggs were $1. For example, several months before COVID I remember getting a flyer from Kroger about their new “shopper program”. For $20-$25 per order extra fee, you could use their app to order your groceries then park outside and they will put it in your car. My wife had been bitching about how time consuming it was to shop for food and we discuss whether this was a good solution. Seemed like no one was willing to pay for that service cause it poorly utilized. Then COVID hit, and that $25 service was now “free”. But it wasn’t and still isn’t free, and the shopper service never went away. Those shoppers running around the store cost $$ and it is just being tacted on to food prices whether you use the service or not. That is a part of why you can’t get eggs for $1 anymore.