research "diaper inflation" for more

An aggregate piece increase percentage vs a production cost decrease percentage would be more useful. Brands shift to higher and lower quality and price brackets, so unless they're all going up, it's not much of an issue if you don't have brand loyalty. But I think it's likely most all brands of diapers are going up in price since they saw people were willing to pay ludicrous prices for them.

Employee wage increase? Or is that calculated in operating expenses?

Do we know who is setting the price higher? Is it more like it’s 6% higher but so is everything else or more of the manufacturer selling to the storefronts at a higher cost thus forcing grocery stores to set the price higher by 6%?

Because it informs who we should be mad at

yeh critical (since they (electorates in my ciuntry since 1970s) empowered banks with all the investment decisions) that those banks see more short term profit (and balance sheet growth), from business loans to small businesses than mortgages, consumer credit, and AAA large corp debt.

Otherwise any potential regulation fron competition is strangled.

unfortunately banks seem to prefer morgtgages over a productive/competetive economy for some really hard to predict reason . . .

I think it was a big mistake to let commercial banks into morgages, i think consumer credit should be heavily limited, and there should be some small business/local limitations on banks, so that they invest some % directly in diverse competetive economy in the places near to where their creditors live. (I know hard to regulate, but harder than regulating a mutinational bank . . .?)

globalised unregulated banking doesnt seem to help with much to me - unless you live in China maybe.

My ex-favorite tea brands silently cutting 20% of tea bags in the box and raised the price 15%, while keeping the same sized box and make the printed weight and contents smaller and harder to find.

And people call me crazy for getting frustrated.

I mean, this is what happens when you give these vultures the freedom to do whatever they want!