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Will Grocery Prices Ever Go Down?

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Grocery prices across the country rose 28% between 2019 and 2024. And they haven’t exactly gotten better. Sun-Times investigative reporter Stephanie Zimmermann has been tracking prices across Chicago grocery stores since December. She tells host Jacoby Cochran about what she found and why everything is so expensive right now.

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