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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
That's a very misleading stat, Baraka. Triple that $423, and that will be the amount that every family pays to have their purchases shipped to the stores for sale in the first place. How much does the rent on commercial space cost every family every year? Without any statistical information on other costs, that number is competely meaningless.
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I wouldn't call it "very" misleading, nor would I say it's meaningless. Retail stores are spending more on security. What hasn't changed is that they need to make a certain markup on goods to make a certain profit. If your costs go up, prices go up too.
This figure isn't what products are already costing; it's what is costing more.
We could also pull out the dollar figure of what the typical family pays for marketing promotion (branding, advertising, packaging, etc.). It might make an interesting story to know how much money you spend on that sort of thing. But the story in the above article is "this is why you're paying more."