YUCK! The puchasing manager at my boutique assured me that it was the 23rd, and I just spoke with her on Thursday. Not Cool
From the post it didn't seem that they actually charged her the higher price...I bet they are just trying to get ahead of schedule at that store and get all the price tags changed in the purses so that they don't risk missing one! In high school I worked at a specialty boutique and we would change prices the day before, but still charge the cheaper price until the actual 'change.' Price changes can take a long time to do and usually require overtime on the part of staff.
Increase is effective on Wed, at first they thought the recently releases would not be effected, but alas even Tivoli, trevi, etc are getting hit with the increase