We'll see when/if ours come down a bit. We're laboring somewhat under the strange cage/free-roaming laws of the United People's Socialist Republic of Washington State... just makes it slower to filter down, even though Safeway/Albertson's isn't based here.

COVID is going to take a long time to "unpack," if we ever will. Was it an economic thing, or a control thing, or an indoctrination thing... or a combination of the above?

Money flows are likely very difficult to predict... for example, we used our "stimulus checks" to upgrade our garden from "a few plants for fun" to a structured growing operation that provides the bulk of our grown food... outside conventional supply chains. Other people saw an opportunity to buy big screen TVs...