From Booming: Grocery sticker shock and the rise of the dollar-store dinner
If you have sticker shock at the grocery store, you’re not alone. In Seattle, the cost of groceries is about 30% higher today than before the pandemic.
Those high prices are straining family budgets and causing many people to change how they shop.
Today, a special episode brought to us by our friends at Booming
GUESTS:
Rebecca Chobat, Dollar Tree Dinners
James McCafferty, Director of Western Washington University's Center for Economic and Business Research
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