Here's the Wall Street Journal take on inequality:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-a-two-tier-economy-is-reshaping-the-u-s-marketplace-1422502201 WSJ may see it as a story about business changing strategy to follow the $ but it's still acknowledgement of growing inequality... and another slap at the middle class who expect to be wooed as valuable customers, not bundled with budget shoppers who can't afford the packaged product.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
