It seems to me that since the whole swine flu thing happened we have been buying more purell for our office than ever before. I decided to pull out the order forms from the last few winters, when the regular flu season starts and found that on average, we bought at least four gallon jugs of purell from our sales rep and this year have already bought seven purell gallon jugs.

When I pulled the order forms, I also noticed that the price of both of the items that we get from that sales rep have gone way up in price. I only get air fresheners and the hand sanitizer from them and it looked as though the air fresheners actually cost twice as much as they did two years ago. No one has ever brought this to my attention and I think that the girl who handles the books should have notified me that I am paying more than before.

I am going to schedule a meeting with my bookkeeper and my sales rep to get to the bottom of the price hike that is occurring without me knowing. If the sales rep can show me that every other company in the area is charging the same for the purell and the air fresheners then I will let it go but if he cannot, then he needs to come down in price or I will find someone new to get those things from.