Corporate America’s new dilemma: raising prices to cover higher transport costs

By Eric M. Johnson and Chris Prentice, Reuters; February 26, 2018

SEATTLE/BOCA RATON, Fla. (Reuters) – The drive for cost cuts and higher margins at U.S. trucking and railroad operators is pinching their biggest customers, forcing the likes of General Mills Inc (GIS.N) and Hormel Foods Corp (HRL.N) to spend more on deliveries and consider raising their own prices as a way to pass along the costs.

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