I buy this product. From my local supermarket, vons. I put some in my morning coffee to quickly cool it and add a bit of non bitter taste. For the past week vons has been out of stock. Today, they had it back in stock. At a new price. An inflated price. It used to regularly be 99 cents. Now it's not. The price went up.
Guess how much the inflation rate went up on this product.
10%?
20%?
25%?
No, the new price is $1.49. Up 50 cents. In a week. That's a one-week inflation rate of 50%! An annualized inflation rate of 2,500%! No, I don't care about the additional 50 cent increase, the product is still inexpensive. It's the inflation that counts. The 50% inflationary price increase for f-o-o-d. What if all food prices went up 50%? What if the prices for everything, all consumer products, went up 50%? If that happens/happened we in America would be living in a sh*thole third-world country. A country which could be renamed Amerizuela. Does any sane American want that?
UPDATE
These days, in late 2024/early 2025, the price has stabilized. At $1.99.