Businesses charge as much as customers will pay
June 9, 2023
More than 82 percent of American businesses say that customer demand for their products is the primary factor in the prices they charge for goods and services, according to a New York Federal Reserve Bank survey of 700 businesses in Atlanta, Cleveland and New York. Only 52 percent take inflation into account when setting prices,
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