Money supply inflation is one of the biggest factors in consumer price inflation. It also transfers wealth to the politically connected with access to the new money and credit first. Then there's the chaos of tariffs on imported goods, which includes basically everything in some stores. Greed is always a constant, but the market is massively distorted by political intervention, yet the market somehow always gets the blame.
I understand why the tariffs brought the prices up on new merchandise, but old things like those already in a store or at the liquidation store should not be as high. It is only GREED, because they can do it, and if we want the item, we will pay their price, and they know this.
My sister was trying to find prices on clothes in Walmart, but they no longer put them on each item. We were told it is because the prices keep going up and it is easier for them to hang one sign for each section, you have to look for the sign.