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Assuming this was around 1994, and adjusting for inflation, it should still be under $2.
That's only taking into account monetary devaluation, not inflation of goods and services (or vice versa)
Monetary devaluation is the only thing that gives any thin-veiled justificstion for price increases. Anything not covered by the inflation calculator is greed.
The inflation calculation is gamed too to make numbers look smaller