Retailers pass along CPG price increases
April 29, 2021
A wide variety of consumer packaged goods manufacturers, including those making cereal, disposable diapers and toilet paper, are raising prices. Retailers, in the past, might have absorbed or only passed through a portion of those increases to their customers. That has not been the case during the pandemic with price increases tied to a variety of factors beyond the control of trading partners.
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