Like most Americans, retailers have been struggling with the rising cost of fuel. It now costs retailers substantially more to buy goods from manufacturers whose own costs are rising, and it costs more for retailers to ship merchandise from distribution centers to stores.
Inflation Nation: How Retailers Are Reacting
Like most Americans, retailers have been struggling with the rising cost of fuel. It now costs retailers substantially more to buy goods from manufacturers whose own costs are rising, and it costs more for retailers to ship merchandise from distribution centers to stores. But retail companies would prefer not to push those cost increases down […]
May 21, 2008
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