http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704029304575526331692863238.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_business
Oh look raising the price of everything all at the same time to see if already stretched households will pay more for it.
Don't do it people, buy as little as you can possibly get away with.
Refuse to participate.
The FED is watching and ready to stimulate once the price gouging really starts to hurt and it will because it's everything at once.
And gingerly means lightly or sparingly.
All at once is a landslide and it's meant to bury you.
Companies that sell consumer mainstays from beer to dresses, from steaks to tires, are rolling out price increases in a collective test of America's economic strength.
Coffee retailer Starbucks Corp., clothing firm Jones Apparel Group Inc., and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. are among the many companies wrestling with higher raw-materials costs and looking to pass along some of those costs to customers.
.The ability of companies to sustain such price increases may sway how the Federal Reserve views the health of the economy, and potentially figure in its decision on whether another big round of stimulus is needed. The country's low rate of inflation was cited by the Fed last month as a main reason the central bank is considering further steps to juice the economy.
