In another story about high food prices, The Washington Post hides the lede in the fourth paragraph. See if you can find it!

But there is no immediate fix for policymakers. Grocery prices remain elevated due to a mixture of labor shortages tied to the pandemic, ongoing supply chain disruptions, droughts, avian flu and other factors far beyond the administration’s control. Robust consumer demand has also fueled a shift to more expensive groceries, and consolidation in the industry gives large chains the ability to keep prices high, economic policy experts say.

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But there is no immediate fix for policymakers. Grocery prices remain elevated due to a mixture of labor shortages tied to the pandemic, ongoing supply chain disruptions, droughts, avian flu and other factors far beyond the administration’s control. Robust consumer demand has also fueled a shift to more expensive groceries, and consolidation in the industry gives large chains the ability to keep prices high, economic policy experts say.

Maybe the role of “consolidation in the industry”, which is to say de facto monopoly power, is a more important story than yet another regurgitation about how people feel about things? Because while that might not be an immediate fix, it’s a pretty important one–and there might even be differences between the two parties and presidential candidates on the solutions.