The gap between the price index and your grocery cart

Grocery prices have almost stopped rising, and almost nobody believes it. Michigan State food economist David Ortega joins host Robyn Vincent to explain what that actually means: prices didn’t come down, they stopped climbing from a much higher place.

Grocery costs in metro Detroit are rising nearly twice as fast as the national rate. And the average that says food barely got more expensive doesn’t describe anybody’s cart. 

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