Prices will continue to rise in the next three months as almost 60% of retailers fail to meet sales targets and others fear closure within the year.
Surely raising prices will help them sell more!
You are 100% correct. The actual market response in this case is “prices set to FALL in respose to retail slump”.
Our media is economically illiterate (or paid to print this crap).
Let alone the bullshit credit card charges everyone is charging these days. Especially as The Retail Payment System Act 2022 is now in force capping the price retailers pay to 0.8%
If it’s capped, how do places like PBTech get away with charging 1-3%? Genuinely curious.
As I understand it, the fee is a cap on how much the payment processer can charge the bank. The amount the bank charges the retailer and the amount the retailer charges the customer are not capped.
This is based on this page: https://comcom.govt.nz/regulated-industries/retail-payment-system
What the fuck is going on here? It’s almost impossible to have a budget when doing groceries anymore.
Yay for wage price spiral
