Why prices never return to the good old days

Question

Like why can’t a head of lettuce go back to costing 1 cent?

Or, maybe more realistically, after dealing with crazy inflation for the last couple of years, why can’t prices just go back to pre-pandemic, pre-inflation levels, once the factors that *caused* the inflation in the first place have been resolved?

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Answer 1

Deflation is even worse than inflation. We would stop spending money and our economy would crash.