1. Those
Corporate Bogey-Giants are competitors, which means it takes one "defector" or one newcomer to "punish" those who jack up prices for fun and profit. And that "defector" or newcomer would do so for fun and profit.
2. A really good working definition of inflation is, "Too much money chasing too few goods".
LIEden (and Congressional Dems) have dumped trillions of new dollars into the US economy, while the Feds, states (mostly those Dem-run), and local gooberments have throttled production and distribution throughunjustifiably tight Covid restrictions. Either would be inflationary, but together,
INFLATION! DU-Morons!