It’s been the case for about a year: prices at the grocery store going up, up, up.
“We’ve seen price increases across the board in every category,” said Nolan Rodman of Rodman’s Discount Gourmet.
He showed FOX 5 some of the price increase emails he gets from suppliers. One of them, from a bakery, laments “unstable surging costs.” Another came from a coffee company, with an official mentioning that “raw materials have increased across the board by more than 20 percent.”
Asked how many similar emails he gets per week, Rodman replied, “dozens. Literally dozens.”
Continue reading the rest of of the Fox 5 report here!
By Dan Varroney
3 decades of experience working with multiple Industries and understanding different Association challenges by helping build strategies that add long term value.
Comprehensive understanding of Associations, as Senior Vice President for the National Association of Manufacturers’ National Membership & Grass Roots operation, as President of the American Solutions Advocacy organization, & as President and CEO of the Association for Corporate Growth.
Considerable background on impact of legislative and regulatory policy on Industries, has provided analysis on economic performance and M&A trends in outlets that include CNBC, CNBC Europe, Fox News, Fox Business, Dow Jones Marketwatch, Bloomberg, and the BBC.
Strategic perspectives are frequently sought out by CEO Update, a leading source for Association news and information. Authored over 145 blog articles on Strategic Planning & Member Engagement.
Facilitates knowledge sharing among forty -five Association CEO’s at the Growth Strategies & Member Engagement Forum.
Served as a member of the Prince William County, Virginia Strategic Business Planning Team.
District Three Councilman in the Village of Palatine, Cook County, Illinois, twenty one years.
B.A. in American History from the Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. and earned a Certificate from the Yale School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut in Leadership and Team Effectiveness.
Member of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE).
