On the Second Day of X-Mas …

On the second day of X-Mas my blogger gave to me two boxing gloves and a lesson in strategy. The first boxing glove that I hand to you, to help you beat down proposed price increases, is market and category intelligence. For those of you who have been following the blogs for a few years now, you'll recall Charles Dominick's insights over on Supply Excellence a couple of years back in Caveat Emptor: Economic Indices Could Be Misleading You and Supply Market Assessment 101 where he noted that a single commodity index alone does ...