Letters to the Editor
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"Cheap" is relative...
Not unlike the robber barons who sold various goods "cheap" through a system of vertical corporations, agribusiness floods the market with "cheap" goods that mostly it reaps the benefit of by owning the final end producer, or striking sweetheart deals with the final selling vendor, assuring that while things may be "cheap" enough for the final vendor, they hardly ever are for the consumer.
Pointing out that goods are "cheap" is also unfair, especially in the context of inflation, stagnant real wages, and unemployment. Many goods and services can be found for what's once was considered "cheap", nominally, but in the context of peoples wages, are not so. You see this especially in the housing market, where increasing prices have shut out large portions of the population, or in segments of the market that are not very well assessed in regards to inflation (such as health-care) or are completely off the radar (such as retirement benefits).