" Here's a fer instance: I supply high carb-high sugar stuff for the afternoon break. Hostess fruit pies, always a popular item, used to be $.99 to $1.09.
Now, they run $1.39 to $1.49 That's just a quick recall, everything else is in envelopes at the bookkeepers. Now these aren't make or break items for my biz, just a reflection of the increase I see in everyday items.
How much of that increase do you suppose is due to increased fuel costs?
A lot of the really low priced items are more effected by fuel increases. Hostess pies that probably didn’t increase for 5-7 years and then went up. A lot of those retail items work that way. I bet you dont claim we have 0 inflation when you dont see those prices rise at all for several years in a row.