isn't quite what it used to be, discount retailer dollar tree has announced it will begin charging 1.25 for a majority of it product by the end of april. rising freight, distribution and operating costs all factors in the change according to the company. now, the very same factors i should point this out are also dogging the economy as a whole. yet the white house insists it's doing all it can to alleviate pressure on consumers, many of whom as you know are now girding for soaring thanksgiving day costs. >> what message does it send to the middle class americans president biden says that he is trying to help who are struggling this week to cover the costs of the most expensive thanksgiving ever that the president is going to take a few days off at a billionaire's compound in nantucket? >> well, first i would say i don't know if you have cooked a turkey before but a 20-pound turkey is a pretty big turkey. they are all b. $1 more. not to minimize that. any increase in prices is something the president is concerned about. as is evidenced by his