I’m increasingly vexed at how expensive fruit preserves have become.

While there have long been premium brands and specialty brands that were expensive, the mass market brands and house brands are now going through the roof.

On Amazon the prices are downright offensive. Amazon prices are typically all over the place for many items, some are cheaper than local but often they are not (you are paying for convenience). But there is no justification for this:

I really don’t know what to think of all of this. Part of me is believing that we are now seeing what I have long feared would happen when people discovered they really should be paid more: corporations are just going to drive up prices faster than wages.