Meltdown 101: How are food prices set?

In a sour economy, you can pad your budget by cutting out cable, trips to restaurants and vacations. But you can't cut out food.

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Sold! Bargain-hunters buying groceries at auction

Out of toilet paper? Need to pick up a few things for dinner? Take a number and start bidding.

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Giuliani Off on Price of Milk, Bread

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hasn't done a lot of grocery shopping lately — at least based on his answers about the cost of milk and bread.

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Supermarket Trick? Or Treat?

I was at the grocery store. It was a major chain store that I frequent because it's close to my house. If I pay attention, use coupons and a discount card, I can usually manage to buy what I want for the week without out going over my preset budget.

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Groceries on the Upper East Side and Upper West Side of Manhattan are expensive. How expensive? One guy with a truck has started a business delivering cheaper groceries. One catch, he doesn't own a grocery store.

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True or false? Your local grocer employs a scheming team of experts who work behind the scenes to orchestrate every little detail in a devious effort to squeeze every cent they can out of you. Baked Goods – Not So Fresh

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Most of the groceries we buy have some type of expiration date. But knowing what those dates mean before you throw something out could save you money.

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Horizon is going to do a line of products indicated "natural" rather than "organic". This article considers the marketing idea behind this and the regulations involved.

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Excerpt: "" It was bad last fall, and it's only getting worse -- by record numbers. Harvesters, the food bank clearinghouse for the Kansas City metro area's food pantries, just closed their books on the fiscal year that ended June 30th, and the news was troubling, at least from …

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Authorities say two Port St. Lucie woman tried to steal nearly $200 worth of merchandise from a Wal-Mart but got caught because they left packets of recently developed pictures in their abandoned shopping carts.

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A record 32.2 million people -- one in every 10 Americans -- received food stamps at latest count, the government said on Thursday, a reflection of the recession now in its 16th month.

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Wanna win groceries for a year for you and a friend? Nominate someone who serves your community and if they win, you win! Check out the contest link on I Am ReveiwMom's blog!

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Did you ever wish there were a Christian version of kosher salt? I thought not. But apparently a retired barber, Joe Godlewski, did. Godlewski, who lives in western Maryland, has named his new product Blessed Christian Salt. It went on the market this week.

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Very entertaining fan video shot on a Treo smartphone while shopping at Trader Joe's.

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For the American public, there is no more telling economic indicator than the unemployment rate -- now 6.7% for the nation, 9.6% in Michigan.

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Australian consumers will be able to look at more weekly supermarket specials on the Government's GROCERYchoice website after a change in management.

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Remember when the worst thing about a shopping cart was one that limped or squeaked? This ABC video portrays shopping carts as even germier than toilets. Yecch!

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In its struggle to make New York more green, the Bloomberg administration has tried discouraging people from using plastic bags. It has taken out ads beseeching residents to use cloth bags and set up recycling bins for plastic bags at supermarkets.

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Quantities of peanut butter, soap and other products are reduced to keep up with rising costs. Shoppers may not know they're getting less for their money.

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No Bail Out!!!!

Facts are there, gas prices soared & groceries sky rocketed! Where was the government when us citizen where scrapping by with putting in the last $2.00 of pocket change in their cars to get to work, or standing in lines to get food -swallowing our pride to feed our families! Why  …

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Some lawmakers and consumer advocates say loopholes will let meatpackers blur the distinction between foreign and domestic meat.

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Meanwhile, the Labor Department said new applications for unemployment insurance rose by 15,000 from the previous week. That broadly missed expectations for a fourth-straight week of declines

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With school starting this week, I need all the help I can get.

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The community survey -- based on a list of items to healthfully feed a family of four for a week -- uncovered a wide price range among supermarkets in West Seattle, White Center and Burien. grocery graphic

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Amazing what you can do with a piece of cloth!

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You can break the code on those sticky labels on fruit -- If it is a plain four digit number, it was conventionally raised with pesticides and chemical fertilizers. If it is a five digit number beginning with a 9 -- that means it was raised organically. And a five digit number …

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The reappointed chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Graeme Samuel, says cheaper grocery prices will only be achieved if there is far more vigorous competition within the industry.

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