Inflation is squeezing the crap out of American consumers – and now if you want to use Huggies to catch that crap, that will cost more too! Consumer paper products company Kimberly-Clark, makers of well-known consumer brands like Huggies, Kleenex, and Cottonelle, announced last week that they will be increasing prices on items in their baby and child care and consumer tissue businesses. From their corporate news release:
Net selling prices for Huggies diapers, Pull-Ups training pants, Cottonelle and Scott athroom [sic] tissue, Viva towels and Kleenex facial tissue, will increase on average between 6 and 8 percent, with implementation timing ranging from July 20, 2008 to August 31, 2008. The price changes vary by brand and in some cases by package count.
Yet another reason why it is so important to be a smart shopper. Know the prices of the products you use regularly and when you find a really good deal stock up on as much as you would reasonably need. Makes me glad I have about 15 packs of diapers sitting in my kids’ closet right now.
On a related note, you can get a small price break on the Huggies with this mail-in rebate, good for $5 back on purchases of 3 packs on a single receipt through 6/15/2008.
