Shoppers Rebel Against Higher Prices, Helping to Slow Inflation

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🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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A.M. Edition for Jan. 18. Companies are hitting the brakes on price increases after signs that wary consumers are beginning to limit their buying. WSJ retail reporter Sarah Nassauer explains the pricing strategies being employed by businesses large and small, and what impact those strategies could have on inflation. Luke Vargas hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.2	Ukraine's interior minister is killed in a helicopter crash in Kiev.
0:39.2	Plus Microsoft plans to announce more layoffs as soon as today.
0:43.9	And retailers rethink price hikes as consumers begin to push back.
0:48.6	People are paying more but buying less and at some point a company has to decide we want
0:53.7	people to buy more of what we sell.
0:56.0	Since Wednesday, January 18th, I'm Luke Vargas with Wall Street Journal and here's the
1:01.0	AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
1:14.6	Ukraine's interior minister and other senior officials were among at least 18 people killed
1:20.0	when a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten on the edge of Kiev this morning.
1:25.5	According to Ukrainian officials, nine of those killed had been on board the aircraft
1:29.6	with children and employees of the kindergarten also among the dead and injured.
1:34.7	The incident is the first time that a top Ukrainian official has died since Russia invaded
1:39.7	Ukraine last year.
1:41.8	The cause of the crash couldn't immediately be determined.
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