The Price Creep Audit: Nobody Decided to Raise Your Prices 7%. It Happened One Invoice at a Time.

Three percent here, nine percent there, never announced, never negotiated — the sample shop's top ten items quietly went from $93,807 to $100,586 in a year. Its own prices moved 0%. That's the scissors, and with $41,000 of profit, the creep ate 16.5% of it.

How it works

• The Creep Ledger — your top ten items (the dozen SKUs that are 80% of spend), last year's unit price against today's, twenty minutes with two invoices per item. Creep % and dollars per line; the weighted total does the accusing
• The Scissors — what the creep costs against YOUR profit, then the two-move fix: the annual re-quote hour ($2,712 recovered in the sample — the best hourly rate in the workbook) and the small pass-through that covers the rest (0.85% — $7.23 on an $850 job)
• The Ritual — the three-line re-quote email, the incumbent's last look (loyalty with leverage — most incumbents find 60–80% of the gap in one call), the shrink watch (a held price on a smaller box is a raise wearing a costume), and rewarding the supplier who held flat

Built for

Contractors · restaurants · salons · makers · retailers — every business whose suppliers reprice annually without apology.

What you get

One .xlsx file, four tabs, instant download. Excel, Google Sheets, Apple Numbers, LibreOffice. No macros, no subscription. Next year's audit takes twenty minutes: today's column becomes last year's.