The prices are going up because they can. There are many excuses but it all amounts to greed as far as I'm concerned. It's like when fuel went up to $4 a gallon here in US I believe what they really wanted was us paying $3 a gallon by raising it to $4 first we were happy to pay $3 when it came down. When gas went up retail prices went with it. Now that gas has come down retail prices stayed there, why? because people are still buying, and if people are still buying they wont stop raising prices. Unfortunately the only thing not going up is wages. There's my rant thank you.