Yea I don't think this article should be judged for lack of evidence; I just don't think it proves what people think is occurring. Inflation rises, so Kroger increased their price of eggs. Then inflation starts to slow down, and Kroger decide not to decrease their prices. I don't equate that to price gouging, that's just a decision to not lower prices. Perhaps their other products began to not sell as well so they kept prices where they were at to cover for the other items where they can't justify increasing prices to what they need. Or perhaps they had lagging increased costs that kept them from lowering the prices.
It would be different if you could show me their margins were just way out of whack with industry standards and they were making money hand over fist, but I don't think that's the case. I don't think that has been shown, which is why we're making a big deal about Kroger not deciding to decrease the price of their eggs $0.14 like Walmart.
Are we as a people saying we can longer allow businesses to increase pricing greater than some CPI number? Or that everyone needs to price equal items equally? Because that's what it sounds like if you can't show they are actually doing the gouging part.