seeing as i sponsor this site ( dont apprectaite the fact u posted another website bossman, but whatever)
i can tell all of you, and i am sure sean summers can back this up. My costs from suppliers went up anywhere from 20-30%.

So ask yourselves this? How do i justify eating all of that? to keep the price low for my customers.

So far i have not raised any of my prices due to me having a abundance of stock that i bought at the lower prices before the dollar took a plunge and i am a tiny store compared to popeyes and snd.
So ask yourself this. How can a tiny store keep prices the same, yet popeyes/snd cant? when they have enormous buying power and huge warehouses?

Its easy, they see this as a way for them to make more profit on products currently bought at lower prices. Where-as i will not do this!!! Only when i have to buy more stock at the new price will i raise the price, but it will only raise HALF of what the new price percentage to me is. so if my price is up 20%, i will raise by only 10% and eat the rest.
Why? because i am not stupid, people wont pay 20-30% more for a product, that the got a month earlier for less.

* sorry kinda of a rant at the same time in this post