@rune @retr0id @dysfun@treehouse.systems I'm not sure this one can be explained entirely as capitalism.

Lidl has been rather atypical in general in how they've responded to the massive food price increases here - they're lagging behind on price hikes by sometimes *months*, and they seem to be trying much harder to avoid price hikes than every other supermarket.

Which *sounds* like it could be explained by capitalism and competition... except the price gap is so high that they could 100% get away with just being *slightly* cheaper than others instead of *significantly* cheaper.

So there definitely seems to be something going on here beyond a simple cost/benefit analysis. I'm hesitant to attribute good intentions to a corporation, but it certainly *looks* like there's some amount of "trying to do the right thing" involved.

(This is a pattern that I've also been seeing in a few other industries here, where one particular company in an industry has completely atypical pricing and seems to be trying to actively soften the blow for folks)