One of the vending machines at work has had a sign on it for a couple weeks now letting us know that there was going to be a price increase. Last week they put up a new sign on each of the machines that dispense chips and candy bars and the like, saying that on July 6th the items in the them would experience a slight price increase.
The standard bag of chips went from 70¢ to 85, the smaller bags went from 50¢ to 60 and the occasional $1 item went to $1.15. That is an increase of 21%, 20% and 15% respectively. A quick survey of co-workers on what percentage would they consider “slight” and 10% was the highest number I got, while fifteen per cent was what we would have called moderate and twenty & twenty-one per cent was considered bordering on substantial.
The drink and coffee machine prices remained the same.
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