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In very simple terms, if everyone is getting paid more, then all of the stores can price everything higher... and so on. It's a cycle.

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It's not that they _can_ price everything higher, they _must_ price everything higher. Everyone getting paid more includes the stockers, managers, bakers, truckers, farmers, everyone involved in getting (eg.) groceries to you.

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