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Back to School Prices Rise Amid Subtle Price Tricks
Retailers push a 10 percent average price hike this fall to cover higher materials and labor costs. They mask increases with trims, faux buttons, extra stitching, and fancy tags. Lands' End raised corduroy pants by seven dollars, adding pocket embellishments as part of the strategy. Brian Sozzi calls this consumer trickery and conflation of inflation and deflation.
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New York
Brian Sozzi
Wall Street Strategies
Labor Department
Marshal Cohen
NPD Group
Dodgeville
Wis
Sears Holdings Corp
Michele Casper
Lands’ End