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Opinion I’m not buying that excuse for high grocery prices

February 8, 2024 at 2:46 p.m. EST
A woman shops for groceries in New York on Sept. 15. (Paola Chapdelaine for The Washington Post)

The Feb. 3 news article “Inflation has been falling. So why are groceries still so expensive?” listed “ongoing supply chain disruptions, droughts, avian flu, labor shortage and more” as reasons grocery prices remain high.

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Right, and the dog ate my homework. How about price gouging enabled by ownership concentrations and lack of antitrust enforcement?

Bernard Klein, Bethesda