Companies Counter Pushback on Price Increases With Promotions

“The consumer was a fat pig — now there’s nothing left, and they need to feed the pig again,” one banker told DealBook. Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), Shopping and Retail, Price Gouging, Discount Selling, Fast Food Industry, Restaurants, Supermarkets and Grocery Stores, McDonald’s Corporation, Consumer Behavior, Inflation (Economics), United States Economy “The consumer was a fat pig — now there’s nothing left, and they need to feed the pig again,” one banker told DealBook. NYT > Business