– What would it take for prices of things like food to decrease back to something affordable?

Question

For context – I just saw a post that said for the first time since 2020 McDonald’s hasn’t made as much money or something, and their prices have increased 40% since 2019. – if big companies start losing profit because people chose to not spend their money there because they can’t afford it, Would prices ever go back down?

In: Economics

Answer 1

Inflation is usually always a ratcheting effect… prices usually go down at all. They just don’t go up as fast when inflation is low. Best you can do is earn more.

Answer 2

Here in Florida Publix seems empty most of the time.
They were always packed before they used the pandemic as an excuse to massively raise prices.