NORTHEAST WI, – Consumers may experience some sticker shock when they go shopping for fireworks for the Fourth of July.  Retailers say you should expect less of a bang for your buck.  Owners of firework companies say prices went up during the pandemic and they jumped another 20-to-40 percent this year.  Officials  say shipping costs for fireworks made overseas have, well, skyrocketed.  One C-E-O said his company paid about 11-thousand dollars for a container of fireworks in 2019.  This year, the company is paying closer to 40-thousand for the same container.  Those prices are passed on to the customers.

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