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With grocery prices soaring, we sent two reporters to wander the aisles of some local supermarkets to find out how inflation is changing the way New Yorkers shop.The price for a week’s worth of groceries for me and my fiancé is usually under a hundred dollars. Now it’s $130 or $140. I don’t go for name-brand apple juice anymore — I’ll get something in the middle or lower end that still has “organic” on the label. And I’m not really consuming alcohol anymore.
The electric bill also went up. That started at the beginning of this summer; it went from 6 cents a kilo to 12 cents. So now, half of my apartment stays dark — the whole house can’t be lit up for no reason. Still, I think I’ve always been poor; you figure out stuff real quick. I do have one nonnegotiable. I have a smoking habit, and I’ll give up vegetables before I give that up. It’s a break from everything, then I go right back to reality again.
Still, this store sells these candied walnuts that I would usually put on my salads. They used to be $5, and I grabbed some today as I was walking in. It was a little container and it was $10. And I was like, okay, I can make my own candy nuts.Before, my groceries would cost me roughly $25 to $30; now it costs $50 or $60. There are certain things that you have put back and say,: Peaches in the can, bread, sugar, flour, things like that. I love chicken wings, but the price is so high now.
I put my groceries on the credit card and I pay as I can. It’s just pressure: You’re not really paying it off because you’re using the card every time you go to the store, and then the interest rate goes up. I’m trying not to stress.
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