Local Grocers Break Down the Impact of Inflation on Your Shopping List

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Inflation has driven prices skyward for all kinds of goods from gas to home goods. Even grocery store staples like cereal, milk and eggs have seen price hikes. While big chain brands might be able to weather these increases better, independent retailers are feeling these costs much more sharply. We’ll talk to local grocers from around the Bay Area to hear how they are dealing with the impact of inflation on their businesses and communities. Guests: Chi Dixon, marketing and communications manager, Berkeley Bowl Eric Liittschwager, independent operator of the Grocery Outlet in the Mission in San Francisco Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:26.0	Food prices have really risen.
1:28.5	Every trip to the grocery store is a bit of a shock.
1:31.0	Sometimes a regular old gallon of milk.
1:34.3	Nothing organic, local, fancy about it, will run almost $6.
1:39.7	We all know to call this inflation, but how does it really work on the retail level? We decided to ask the people who are putting the products and the prices on the shelves.
1:44.6	What's it like to run a market right now, watching your suppliers raise prices,
1:48.6	and having to decide when or how to pass those on to your customers?
1:52.5	So we'll be talking with local grocers about how bad things have gotten,
1:55.6	whether they expect anything to change soon,
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