Your snacks are getting more expensive. Blame these big food companies, not inflation.

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A Kitkat chocolate bar is pictured in the supermarket of Nestle headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland, February 16, 2017. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy
Nestlé, maker of KitKat bars, is one of the food companies that continued raising prices and booked higher profit even as food inflation slowed down in early 2023.

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Amazon Fresh is laying off hundreds of store workers

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Amazon Fresh is eliminating hundreds of jobs at its grocery stores, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

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You can now find Costco-style low prices for generic prescription drugs at Kroger in a partnership with Mark Cuban's online pharmacy

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Customers of Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs can now pick up their prescriptions at 2,000 Kroger pharmacies, Cost Plus said in a tweet Wednesday.

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Amazon's palm payment tech is coming to every Whole Foods in the US

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Every US Whole Foods will have Amazon One palm payment technology by the end of 2023, the tech giant said Thursday.

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Lidl closes 11 stores as it struggles in the US. See the full list.

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A Lidl store opens in southeast Washington DC in September 2022.
A Lidl store opens in southeast Washington DC in September 2022.

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Some San Francisco Safeway stores added gates barring shoppers from leaving unless they scan a receipt. It's an anti-theft measure that has spread across the UK.

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A customer shops for meat at a Safeway store on April 12, 2023 in San Rafael, California. According to a report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, inflation in March slowed to its lowest rate in nearly two years with prices rising 5 percent, down from 6 percent in February. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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I shopped at the smallest Trader Joe's in the world. It was chaotic and cramped, but the selections were still impressive.

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Smallest Trader Joe's

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Crashing egg prices signal the Fed is winning its war against inflation

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Customers shop for eggs at a H-E-B grocery store on February 08, 2023 in Austin, Texas.

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I shopped at a Dollar General food 'market' for the first time. I wouldn't go back unless it was my only choice.

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Alex Bitter, the reporter who wrote this piece, wears sunglasses and a light jacket while posing in the parking lot of a DG Market in Maryland.
The reporter in front of a DG Market in Maryland.

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Sliding beef sales send Tyson stock down 16% as the meat producer slashes its outlook

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Tyson Foods brands include Jimmy Dean sausages, Ball Park hot dogs and Tyson chicken strips.
Tyson Foods makes Jimmy Dean sausages, Ball Park hot dogs and Tyson chicken strips.

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