I agree with you Tom, but I'm sure you know enough about the retail food racket to know that middlemen make all the profits, not the farmer or the grocer. Farm prices go up and retail groc prices will go up by much much more.

Remember when music came on vinyl records? Vinyl records are made of petroleum products, so when the price of oil went up X% in the '70s overnight, the price of rock and roll went up by X% immediately, supposedly to reflect the jump in raw material costs. What nobody mentioned was that the percentage cost of a record album due to the vinyl and packaging is insignificant. Most of it is due to marketing, promotion, royalties, etc.