2024-04-18
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Adrienne, I don't know how often you frequent your local supermarket, but grocery prices are not okay right now.
It's like over $6 for a family sized box of Cheez its, which, you know, that's my personal barometer for inflation.
Oh, my gosh.
That is a barometer of inflation that I understand.
Truthfully.
I'm a cheese nips person more than a cheese its person.
Yeah.
I think they taste less healthy.
Yeah.
Though that's important.
The struggle is real, though.
Grocery prices have gone up 25% since January 2020, and that's outpaced the increase in inflation overall.
And grocery prices hold a kind of special place in our economics brains.
We feel the pain of inflation every single time we pay those new higher prices week in, week out, and pretty much everyone shops.
Yeah.