Why your groceries just got more expensive

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🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On today’s Post Reports, how presidential candidates are shifting their focus to the Midwest. How the pandemic is making us pay more for less at the grocery store. And how grocery store workers morale is at an all-time low.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is shifting his strategy in an attempt to win the Midwest. Matt Viser reports that the intentional contrast with President Trump makes the region the most crucial battleground in the 2020 campaign.

What’s on your grocery store shelves? Turns out, it’s a lot less, for a lot more. Laura Reiley reports on how the pandemic is affecting the food supply chain.

“They don’t even treat us like humans anymore”: Abha Bhatarrai explains how grocery store worker’s morale is at an all-time low.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:05.0	Hi, this is Tracy Jamm, Collie from the Post.
0:08.0	I'm a president from PowerU.
0:10.0	Hi, it's Rodent Given, at the Washington Post.
0:13.0	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm routine powers.
0:18.0	It's Thursday, September 3rd.
0:23.0	Today, why Joe Biden is honing in on the Midwest.
0:27.0	New trends in food shopping and the changing reality for growth free workers.
0:34.0	So, what is the challenge that Joe Biden is facing right now when it comes to the Midwest?
0:42.0	So, it's an area that has two parts of Biden's coalition.
0:47.0	Black voters in urban centers like Detroit and Milwaukee and suburban white voters.
0:53.0	Those are the ones that he's trying to hold on to and mobilize to vote.
0:58.0	But there's also this battle over white working class voters, particularly those who went for Trump in 2016 after supporting Obama in prior elections.
1:07.0	And just a few thousand votes either way could really make the difference.
1:11.0	So, Biden's challenge right now is trying to figure out the right tone and the right message.
1:17.0	My name is Matt Weiser and I'm a national political reporter at the Washington Post.
1:24.0	And of course, Biden is trying to strike the right tone in messaging in the Midwest at the exact moment when incidents there have been the epicenter of conversation and protests about racial injustice.
1:43.0	The conventions that we've saw over the past few weeks were really sort of the opening round of this fight.
1:49.0	And we saw each side present their own arguments.
1:52.0	And Biden really made this about Trump's mismanagement largely around the coronavirus.
1:57.0	Just judge this president on the facts.
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