Cost of Living

Here's a not unreasonable question for you. If you make two versions of a product and one has less components, which is cheaper to produce and hence should cost the customer less? Easy isn't it, of course the simpler produce should cost less. Why then, pray do tell, does unsalted butter cost more than the ordinary sort which has an added ingredient (salt) and which takes longer to make?
It wouldn't be because it's meant to be (gasps of horror) more healthy now would it?
Likewise organic food ostensibly uses less stuff to produce it and it's supposed to be better for us and better for the environment - and therefore costs more. But does the extra revenue this raises get passed on to the farmer - no of course not - it gets swallowed up by the greedy wholesalers and retailers - all strictly for the benefit of the shareholders of course.
Just wait until they start trying to charge extra for less packaging to be green....