You are obviously too high on yourself to be successfully engaged in any practical or productive conversation.
Ad Hominem. If find something wrong with my argument then show it to me.
If someone is going up and gouging for the sake of profiteering in a shitty situation
How do you expect there to be a supply (during a massive increase in demand) unless price goes up? Do you like shortages? Your whining causes them in the short term and even more so in the long term.
As a consumer I will vote with my dollars now and in the future on how well that retailer has maintained my trust.
You have every right to, they are your dollars. Doing so because they raised the prices "too much" (actually, too little) causes these problems.
We all get that prices are going up due to inflationary pressures
No. Econ 101 failure. The prices went up long before (price) inflation hit every other sector. (While price inflation pressure is a very small part of this, it's tiny compared to demand.) If you'll bother reading what I said, it's due to simple Economics.
Quick lesson:
1. Price is determined by where supply meets demand.
2. The Biden Administration, Covid, and the "peaceful protests" caused a
massive increase in demand.
3. The supply is mostly fixed in the short term.
Ergo,
4. The price goes up.
(You can stop here if you want.)
Lesson 2:
5. Shortages are caused by the market price being held at a lower point than supply and demand would indicate. (There is more demand than there is supply at that price point.)
6. Suppliers are holding the price there because they fear the irrational (economically illiterate) complaints of their customers of "gouging".
7. The price goes up some, but not nearly enough to prevent the shortage.
Solution,
8. The suppliers must increase the price to ensure that everyone willing and able to pay at that price can do so.
Lesson 3:
9. Profit is a good thing that tells market suppliers where they should invest their money.
10. Pressure holding the price down lowers the amount of profit.
11. Less profit means the current suppliers have less incentive (and money) to expand production.
12. Less profit means potential suppliers have less incentive to move in to the market.
Ergo,
13. The economic illiteracy that complains about "gouging" makes the current problem worse and either causes another problem in the future or makes future problems worse.
So, it's
you and
your actions that make this situation worse than it would otherwise be. Knock it off!