Fireworks, barbacoa, Big Red. All the staples of a San Antonio-style Fourth of July will be pricier this year.
Krystale Timmons and her daughter Mariah Timmons, 16, place price tags on fireworks in their stand in Converse on Wednesday. Inflation is affecting fireworks and other Fourth of July holiday trappings, although Alamo Fireworks say they haven't boosted prices this summer.Last year Americans fired off a record-setting 416 million pounds of fireworks, reports the American Pyrotechnics Association. Even more are expected this year.
Prices for fireworks are following that trend. Retailers, particularly smaller ones, are dealing with rising costs, stemming largely from supply chain snarls, and grappling with how much of those costs to pass on to consumers. The industry has seen costs rise 35% this year, the pyrotechnics trade association reported.
Julie Heckman, the association’s executive director, said earlier this year a handful of large retailers chartered shipping vessels for the sole purpose of importing fireworks into Gulf of Mexico ports.That’s not true everywhere though. Prices at San Antonio-based Alamo Fireworks, which has stores across Texas, aren’t any higher for July Fourth than they were for New Year’s Eve, said Chelsea Bode, the company’s communications director.
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