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Canada’s inflation rate is plummeting, so why are grocery prices still so expensive?
(www.ctvnews.ca)
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No matter what the inflation rate prices will not go down, for prices to go down you need deflation which is not likely to happen. Prices will always go up, it's just the speed of which they go up that changes.
We saw deflation as recently as 2020. Prices do not always go up.
Moreover, every single high inflationary period in history, save one time, has seen deflation occur soon after. Why do you think this will be the second outlier, especially when the driving forces are closer to every other time and quite unlike that one unique time?
To be fair, 2020 was a little weird.
It was, but we also saw deflation in 2009. It is less common for us to see than inflation, to be sure, but it is far from something that never happens. On average, we experience it about once every decade. No doubt it will be twice this decade by the time we reach the end.