"JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in message
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> Do you suppose higher shipping costs (regardless of how the price is
> labeled) is something a business has to include in its pricing plans? Keep
> it short and simple, to it can be understood by all the business geniuses
in
> this discussion, who think they deserve raises while nobody else does.
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Short answer......YES.

Still think they could be more aboveboard about the methodology however.
Spent the better part of my first 20 years in the logistics business working
with the food and beverage industry (wholesale, retail and distribution) and
know that it is for the most part a low-margin business and they have to
look at every angle to extract profits, sometimes it is for the good and
sometimes not.

KW