Inflation

Realistically, my guess is that in specific cases, it is due to supply chain issues. They can be cumulative - a delay (or a price increase) in a primary component affects everything that went after it in the chain. 

Especially sensitive products would be those where there are specific proprietary components being delayed. That is, there is no substitute for them.

When the AKM DAC chip factory went poof, there were available other established DAC chip makers and DAC manufacturers adapted. 

In the meantime though, apparently the prices of remaining AKM chips skyrocketed.

rbstehno, Since your info is coming from "a Walmart employee" I guess I'll just go with that! lol

Look at all the backseat economists out there (the lurking ones who won't post) pretending to not be political by clumsily being circumspect, getting a post removed that did not violate any conditions and which was a direct response to an idiotic (and political) statement to begin with. That post is still up. Go figure.

You just have to love all the bitching and whining about free speech and the very ones who do so are the first to censor others. But it's all a sort of validation, isn't it?

All the best,
Nonoise

@nonoise   Well said. Thanks for drawing attention to the removal.

@nonoise  the guy who you are probably talking is unfortunately correct.  Inflation is caused when too much money chases a limited supply of goods and services.  COVID may have crimped the supply chain, but it was and is GOV that is printing money right, left and in-between  - making any accumulated money you and I may have worth less. 

I am not trying to start an argument by saying that current gov policy is "bad."  However, I am saying that it is definitely inflationary.