What is the Most Pressing Industry Issue as We Head into ’23?

Dear Client: To paraphrase James Carville back in the Clinton era: It’s the economy, st*upid. That may be a slightly ironic throwback, considering our current inflationary circumstance.  Indeed, we’re still trying to discern the effect of several rounds of beer price hikes, the most recent of which were enacted in early fall.  But where many large suppliers have taken robust pricing out of what they’ve deemed necessity (and still lagging behind other CPG hikes), wholesalers are still very concerned about