Over a million people have now died in the U.S. due to Covid. On top of that, people have been forcibly removed from the workforce if they didn't or couldn't get their Covid shots. A lot of people were nearing retirement age and chose to retire early rather than to put up with all of that stuff. All of that has left a huge loss of skilled labor in the market that may take years or decades to regain. Without skilled labor to train new employees, there are only so many new employees a company can take on. This has nothing to do with people being lazy. It has to do with trying to recover from a pandemic coupled with being crippled by mandates that are reducing our workforce. On top of that, we have a bird flu epidemic killing off the chickens driving up the price of chicken and eggs. We have Covid coming back in China which has shut down their ports again. We have what's going on with Russia driving up oil, fertilizer, and wheat prices. Brazil isn't getting their fertilizer from Russia so that's driving up prices of coffee, soy, sugar, etc.. There was a railroad strike in Canada affecting fertilizer as well. Rebels from Yemen attacked a Saudi Oil Refinery driving up the price of diesel. With so many fuel and fertilizer shortages, urea, a type of fertilizer used in Adblue used to run Diesel engines is in short supply. If the trucks have a hard time getting the product to the stores, the prices go up.
