This is like half of an article, because of course, everyone recognizes that companies charge more when supply-chains and other things are screwed up.
But many of those costs have dropped, some to pre-pandemic levels or even lower, but the consumer prices have not dropped to match, and profits are growing.
Wingstop raised prices of wings during lockdown (even switching to being "Thighstop" for a while). Now prices are back down to earth, but they haven't modified their prices to match.
But many of those costs have dropped, some to pre-pandemic levels or even lower, but the consumer prices have not dropped to match, and profits are growing.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/18/wingstop-is-seeing-meaningfu...
Wingstop raised prices of wings during lockdown (even switching to being "Thighstop" for a while). Now prices are back down to earth, but they haven't modified their prices to match.