Food giants are using inflation as cover to price gouge – and getting away with it
There have been repeated protests from industry that they had only been passing on higher input costs. Photo: Getty — © Getty Images/iStockphoto
Sarah Collins
It has been dubbed “margin padding”, “greedflation” or old-fashioned “price gouging”.
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