Greed is one of the sins that gets the “deadly” label. This morning I heard about an instance of greed that I thought was particularly noxious. A Houston area pastor told me on the phone this morning that the grocery stores don’t have any motivation to have sales and that prices have noticeably increased. The area has absorbed victims from Louisiana and families are restocking after Rita. The relationship of price to supply and demand is an accepted commercial dynamic, but in this case in looks like opportunistic greed. I expect the grocery store owners have an excuse, but they have a lot of explaining to do before I’ll be convinced.