Owners of food and drinks on the edge with uncertainty surrounding the prices

Livonia, Michigan (Wxyz) – Prices, prices, prices: it is that everyone is talking now, with many people concerned compared to price increases at the essentials. Many owners of food and drinks stores are also at the forefront of their seats, trying to prepare for everything that comes.

“Day by day, these are only unknowns. So it’s a kind of waiting and see with our sellers,” said Fred Rayle, operations director and Nino Salvaggio.

This is the message that many in the food and drinks industry tell me.

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“It is an incredible phenomenon because all this is extremely fluid and it seems that it changes with each 24 -hour cycle”, “ said Bill Wild, CEO of the Midwest Independent Research Association.

This comes with around 15% of the American food supply and 14% of the country’s alcohol from abroad.

“Right now, everything is expected and see because they have not seen the impact because the prices have been that they will begin, then they will stop, then,” said Rayle.

Rayle tells me that they are at the mercy of their American distributors. But he says that these American distributors are unable to guarantee prices because the prices continue to change almost daily.

“Until they know it, I cannot know. I cannot make this decision. But that is just part of what we are dealing with what we are dealing with,” Said Rayle.

Those in the drinks industry, such as Clifton Denha, also closely monitor what is happening for a slightly different reason.

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“Consumers are afraid. They don’t know what’s going to happen. They don’t do so shopping because they want to save their money”, “ Said Denha.

Clifton says that if the future remains uncertain, they are convinced that consumers will not feel the impact of the drinks service.

“Many large companies, they will end up absorbing these costs because they will not want to take a national success in terms of price because” hey, that will harm their sales “,” said Denha.

Wild says that there has not yet been a financial impact in the food and drinks industry, the potential is still a real threat. He says there is still hope for the future, and that it is only a bump on the road.

“Small and medium -sized businesses will probably be disproportionately affected because they do not have big warehouses,” said Bill. “I think we will see a leveling in the very close future.”

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