>Also, wages have increased due to the minimum wage going up,
>and companies
>having issues with filling job openings, because Americans
>don’t want to work certain jobs, and lot of Americans are
>under-qualified. That drives inflation as well, so companies
>have to raise product prices to cover job cost.

Workers wages are not the driving force behind price increases. It's corporate greed. Real wages for employees have not risen in 40+ years. Meanwhile CEO compensation has grown nearly 1000% in the same time period. Stop letting them fool you into thinking it's the workers at fault and not the capitalists.