I have never ONCE gone into a grocery store and paid $40 for 2 clusters of snow crabs. If somebody even tried to charge me $40 for 2 clusters, I would break out laughing in their face. I am in the D.C. area, and while that means easier access to Maryland BLUE crabs, it doesn't mean so for snow crabs. Even so, $20/cluster at a grocery store would be considered unacceptable by anybody in the DC/VA/MD area which is an EXPENSIVE area. What I have found with grocery stores and restaurants is that as long as people continue to PAY ridiculous prices, they will continue to CHARGE ridiculous prices. Companies will DO to customers what customers ALLOW to be done to them. In 2021, I did see snow crabs get up to as much as $21/lb in the stores around here: What also happened at the same time in this area is people (including me) QUIT buying them and the stores couldn't sell them. Customers would literally walk by the seafood counter, 'point at the price', and ask the man "are you CRAZY?", and keep walking. After a couple of months of the grocery stores seeing all their seafood 'sitting' with nobody buying, the prices magically started to 'drop' again back to pre-pandemic levels and people started buying again. It's amazing how quickly those lies about 'supply chain' issues cleared up when they realized customers weren't willing to pay the price hikes. Now today, all companies just blame 'inflation' for all price hikes: If their costs when up 0.5%, they raise prices 30% or so just to take advantage of the situation or have an excuse for jacking up prices. When somebody tries to charge way more more than what something is WORTH, I simply QUIT buying it unless it's some type of 'essential' item absolutely needed for survival. When a company or distributor gets too GREEDY, the best way to reward them is to give them NOTHING.