The Producer Price Index delivered a higher-than-expected annual wholesale inflation rate of 2.4% in October, its highest ...
Thus, retailers are pitted against wholesalers, and wholesalers try to best producers. This web of conflicting ... the way the product is purchased by consumers. For instance, clothing shoppers ...
Thursday's report from the Labor Department showed that its producer price index — which tracks inflation before it hits ...
The producer price index ... their origin—when they are sold wholesale by their producers (usually to other businesses, often many steps before they reach consumers). Sales tax is not included ...
Companies may not have the money required to set up distribution directly to the consumer and would therefore be reliant on a wholesaler or retailers to distribute their products. Where a product ...