Inflation at both the jewelry wholesale and retail level may seem tame for 2009, but the underlying components of inflation were anything but stable. Commodities and currencies showed wild gyrations on a month-to-month basis during the year. When the dust settled, it was the same old story: margins were squeezed at almost every level of the jewelry pipeline. Consumers were the winners, and everyone else suffered.
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