Some of America's largest companies say their customers are increasingly seeking cheaper alternative products and services, searching for bargains or just avoiding items they deem too expensive
Tax on realized capital gains above $500k. Capital gains taxed as ordinary income or maybe a higher rate than OI since it isn't really earned by the investor but by the labor of the employees of the company they "invested" in.
You mean gouging not inflation, inflation is across the board, these companies are not paying proportionally more to make the product just gouging the end customers.
When the CEOs (Kroger, looking at you) are literally bragging on quarterly earnings calls about raising prices and keeping them there just because they can - we call that Price Gouging. If only we had some kind of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that could help to regulate these greedy business practices…