And some major insurers have started adjusting prices based on the safety performance of vehicles.

The legislation recently passed in New Jersey, for example, will give insurance companies more freedom to adjust prices.

With no inventory in warehouses, Dell can adjust prices faster, he said.

"Adjusting prices and wages will have to be faced in a sound way," said one World Bank official.

American companies offer several reasons for not having adjusted prices.

Deal with the store manager or someone who has the power to adjust prices.

The government plans to adjust prices monthly according to conditions in the international oil market.

Instead, they should be on the sales floor, checking inventory, solving problems, adjusting prices.

If they did not adjust prices immediately then market activity would bring about the changes.

But either way, he said, he adjusted prices at the direction of his supplier.