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FaceTime with the Content Guy:  Keeping Your Customers In The Loop

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One of the things I heard several times last week while in Southern California was how some retailers are reluctant to talk about price increases with their customers.  Which, you won’t be surprised to hear, I think is the absolutely wrong approach to prices affected by external events that retailers cannot control.

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