All these price increases are just ridiculous

[drcollie]

And yet another email today from Hooker Furniture

final reminder that Hookers price increases take effect tomorrow, 1-11-22. If you have any outstanding orders, please send them in by the end of the day. As a reminder, the increases are 10% for Hooker Upholstery and 15% for Hooker case goods.

What started out as a worker shortage (Covid) has ramped up into a never-ending cycle of price increases it seems. At the store level, we can't keep up. At the consumer level, I have to wonder if this goes beyond a worker shortage and is simply a money grab by source suppliers. Hooker furniture for example , is 100% imported, they make nothing in the USA and so they are getting torn up by container ship costs. Apparently Container ship costs have increased 300% from a year ago...