Your town might be sitting on pandemic cash it could use to build a grocery store or launch a guaranteed-basic-income pilot

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President Joe Biden signs the American Rescue Plan on March 11, 2021.

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Dollar General has close to 20,000 stores across the US. Here's how it keeps prices so low.

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Dollar General deals.

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Forget luxury goods, US shoppers are now using buy-now-pay-later services to pay for groceries

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Food inflation has reached record highs in the US over the past year.

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Gen Z's top 10 brands are out — and they reveal an obsession with self care

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Walmart's experiment with pickup-and-delivery stores appears to be over as the last two prepare to close

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Walmart is shuttering its standalone pickup and delivery stores.

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I live in Hawaii, where grocery prices have always blown my mind — but take a look at what inflation has done

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Morgan Pōmaikaʻi Lee posing for a picture in Hawaii with palm trees behind her.
Lee moved to Hawaii two years ago and was shocked by grocery store prices.

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Getir lays off 100 employees in the latest sign of trouble for the rapid-delivery startup

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A Getir worker wears a purple-and-yellow uniform and rides one of the company's ebikes through a crosswalk in Manhattan.
Getir laid off roughly 100 corporate employees in the US at the end of January, marking the second round of layoffs since last year.

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Whole Foods is sick of high prices, too — so it's pulling the Walmart trick of squeezing suppliers to bring prices down

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Whole Foods has lowered prices over the last several years to combat its image as an expensive chain. Now, it's asking suppliers to lower prices as inflation moderates.

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As egg prices climb, advocacy groups and politicians call on FTC to investigate possible price gouging scheme: 'Somebody needs to pay attention'

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Brown chicken eggs in a carton are seen above a selection of other egg cartons, including a brand called Phil's, at a supermarket in Chicago
Advocacy groups and politicians are calling for an investigation into skyrocketing egg prices.

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