Especially on items where the pricing is predatory, which is most of them, but some more-so than others.
Recently we were setting up reticulation for our veggies. It's just a network of pipes, but you need clips and connectors and bubblers and things. Of course you have to buy them in packs of however many, but sometimes it's just a nylon clip which I'm certain cost less than $0.01 to manufacture, but a pack of 12 of them costs $5.
I get that the $5 is the cost for the infrastructure to produce, transport, stock, and then sell an item, but that also means that me not paying that $5 hasn't actually cost the vendor anything.