the shrink-fla,jtion really sneaks you want on them sneaks up on them just because product you re used to buying is reduced in size. arthel: listen, president biden and some economists say this pandemic will continue to drive inflation. so how does this new variant, omicron, factor in? well, i think, you know, what we saw during the kind of height of the pandemic was a lot of people staying home, and we saw the shutdowns. unfortunately, i cothink that i heard an analogy that said the world was at a red light, and once we opened back up, it was a green light, everybody came rushing in. and that furthered this problem when it comes to the supply chain and demand. we might see that again. that s why we hope to see things change, some of the regulation s change. we often see the ships waiting outside in the water, let s bring them to texas, elsewhere