Price Increases
Sir.—We were blandly assured on television last week by a spokesman for the Retailers’ Association that when the price freeze was lifted there would be no Immediate or large-scale increases. But what happens? On Friday night a large city department store had price tags ready to put on motor mowers that were priced at $139, increasing them to sl6o—s2l Increase or just over 15 per cent My wife purchased today a yard of lining at 45c which was sold to her the previous week for 39c a yard, also an increase of over 15 per cent. Heaven help those on pensions, superannuation, add fixed incomes if this is a sample of what is in store for the consumer!—Yours, etc., BRICE THAW. August 20, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31765, 23 August 1968, Page 12
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