With Hacker News being predominately English speaking I suspect plays into why we see more US and UK (and generally English speaking countries) related posts vs non-English speaking.
And of course people do love to point out where the UK is suffering these days to put a Brexit spin on it (whether fair or not) as it gets them clicks. Much like a famous or young person dying is almost always reported as "died suddenly" these days as it gets clicks with all the anti-vax crowd.
To answer you questions "Not sure why the UK is being singled out." it is simply that it is a UK website www.grocerygazette.co.uk
There are plenty of similar stories about the same kind of inflation here in France such as https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2023/02/03/inflati... or https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230306-french-retailers...
With Hacker News being predominately English speaking I suspect plays into why we see more US and UK (and generally English speaking countries) related posts vs non-English speaking.
And of course people do love to point out where the UK is suffering these days to put a Brexit spin on it (whether fair or not) as it gets them clicks. Much like a famous or young person dying is almost always reported as "died suddenly" these days as it gets clicks with all the anti-vax crowd.