After dumping trillions of dollars into the economy the resulting inflation that a child could see coming is easily explained away by "Price gouging". Perfectly willing to demonize hard working business owners as greedy in order to deflect blame away from themselves. Did you notice grocery store and gas station owners are price gougers, but college presidents in charge of the insane rate in the rise of college tuition are never smeared as price gougers.
No I personally don't believe that, there are examples of reasons why products are up, like supply issues because of lack of workers in these facilities, factory fires is another,.theft either at the store or, train cars, or distribution centers, also there was a story on the news that was talking about cargo ships that were stuck out at see to get unloaded, also the bridge collapse in Massachusetts which is another busy port has only one lane.
Now let's talk about freight prices because of the overall cost to bring those services to their destination because of lack of drivers or fuel costs. There are many hidden factors to prices of goods and very little has to do with the business end of the product sold.