Inflation is taking its toll on Albertsons (NYSE: ACI), despite the supermarket chain reporting fiscal 2021 third-quarter earnings with sales and profits that beat Wall Street estimates, while management raised full-year guidance. There are diminishing returns associated with constantly raising prices, even in a period of runaway inflation, and the company will eventually run out of people to give the coronavirus jab. Deutsche Bank analysts told investors after the earnings report, "For 2022, we expect supply pressures to likely linger for longer, perhaps until the second half of next year before gradually unwinding."