• lynny@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Am I just being ignorant in thinking it’s strange that these vendors need to increase their prices by 24% when inflation is not even double digits?

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      1 year ago

      Corporate greed. It happens with everything, be it prices of microchips or mashed potato.

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        1 year ago

        I‘m honestly surprised that games haven’t reached the $100 mark years ago already(excluding deluxe editions). I hear many people cry about how a console game is now $80 instead of $70 but if we’d really take Inflation of the last 20 years they should already be way above $100. It seems like games are one of the most price-stable things

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      1 year ago

      I suspect you are not being ignorant, but don’t actually know. However, with rEcOrD pRoFiTs every quarter, well I just don’t care, it’s too much. EVERYTHING is expensive now. And it sucks. I miss my $1.99 milk and $1.50 per gallon for gas :(

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          In Sweden and the UK, although it’s come down a bit at least.

          The food inflation is especially crazy, it was over 20% for a while.

          But I think the Eastern European countries like Lithuania, Estonia, etc. have had it the worst - but at least they were starting from lower prices.