MIDTOWN (WABC) — Drivers aren’t the only people feeling the pinch of congestion pricing.
Some businesses say they’re being forced to pass the added cost of the toll onto their customers.
It’s getting more expensive to do business.
Delivery companies are forced to add a surcharge to the shops they do business with just to help cover the costs that the delivery truck drivers are getting hit with daily because of the congestion toll.
Now businesses are having to make difficult decisions that are leaving some of their customers unhappy.
Montel Romero delivers to small businesses in Midtown but he says goods he normally would have sold, are still on his handtruck.
“This is a return too,” Romero said.
According to a store worker, inside International Grocery on 9th Avenue, it’s a circle of growing expenses.
“All the deliveries we get they increase the prices so the effected people are going to be the customers because we have to increase our price too and they gotta pay …