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Many people are grappling with financial uncertainty.

Some might say anxiety that not only involves investing in the fluctuating stock market,

but also the basics, such as groceries.

Statistics show in the past four years the average price of groceries has gone up by more than 23%. That's no surprise to many of our on-point listeners.

I think the thing that was hardest for me to swallow, no pun intended, was the prices for bread

at Wegmans. There's a three-pack of hamburger that I get often that has gone from 1499 to 2399.

I buy the seated bread there and it went from $5 to $5.50 and then from $5.50 to $6.

And $6 to $6.50. I'd say, all in the space of around 45 days,

all the way up to $7 within literally, maybe 10 days.

Until COVID hit in December 2019, our grocery budget had been around $100 a week. That $100 a week grocery bill is now $200 a

week. I do not know how families of four or five, with small children, I don't know how

they're managing to feed themselves. That was Elizabeth in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Mary from Northborough, Massachusetts, and Howard in Elkhart, Indiana.

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