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Wednesday, January 12, 2022

The Daily Money: Why grocery stores still have empty shelves

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Wednesday, January 12

Hello, Daily Money readers, and happy Girl Scout Cookie season. It's me, Jayme Deerwester, back with you this Wednesday.

If you've been to a grocery store in the past week, you may have seen enough empty shelves to make you wonder if you'd traveled through time and space to a Moscow supermarket circa 1985. Shortages at grocery stores across the country have grown more acute in January as omicron continues to spread and winter storms have only worsened supply-chain struggles and labor shortages. The shortages being reported nationwide are widespread, impacting produce and meat as well as packaged goods such as cereal.

And then there's inflation, which has risen 7% to its highest level since 1982, which means your money couldn't buy as many groceries as it used to even if they were available.

On to today's ...

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