hershey
Well, we've been saying it would be more honest to just raise prices instead of shrinking the product, and Hershey has taken us up on that. On Friday, only months after a 13% hike back in February, Hershey announced a
price increase of 10-11% across the product line, citing higher costs for ingredients.
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inflation
The notorious
Grocery Shrink Ray was supposed to help prevent this, or so we were told by apologists for it, but Datamonitor is reporting that Kraft Foods, Kellogg's, ConAgra, Sara Lee, and Tyson "are all expected to announce a hike in the prices of their products" in the near future. Here are some of the hikes you can expect, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
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pricing
An alert reader noticed that something looked fishy on the Sam's Club order screen when he was ordering new checks—if you decide to order double the number of checks, your price-per-box magically goes
up the tiniest bit. We figure the amount is so small that most people don't even notice it, or they notice it but figure they'll still save time and shipping so it's worth the 3-5 cents extra. Still, it's a sneaky thing for a bulk discount store to do.
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