Inflation Exit Closed

A single-panel supermarket scene staged like a one-way emergency corridor. Overhead signage reads 'TEMPORARY INFLATION' with arrows forcing shoppers and their overflowing carts forward through a narrow aisle. At the entrance, store workers use staple guns to slap higher price tags over old ones in a frenzy. At the far end sits a large red door labeled 'PRICES BACK DOWN' and 'EXIT,' but it is visibly chained, padlocked, and covered with an 'Out of Service' notice. Meanwhile, just beside it, a discreet side loading dock marked 'Record Profits' is wide open, where relaxed executives in suits wheel out hand trucks stacked with cash and grocery items, ignoring the trapped customers. The joke lands in one glance: the public is herded through 'temporary' inflation, but the way out has been intentionally blocked by those benefiting from it.