Retail footwear prices not only rose again in April, but the increases accelerated again. Higher prices impacted all key markets, in step with accelerating overall inflation , according to the latest data from the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA).

In fact, shoe prices jumped 4.2 percent year-over-year in April, higher eight of the last nine months and the fastest in 43 months, the FDRA noted. April also marks the fourth time in the last five months that footwear price gains have accelerated.

Women’s retail footwear prices jumped 4.5 percent, the ninth straight increase and the most in 42 months.…