SMART SHOPPER ALERT : RAINS, DROUGHT FUEL INCREASE IN U.S. FOOD PRICES.Byline: Joyce M. Rosenberg Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A nickel nickel, metallic chemical element; symbol Ni; at. no. 28; at. wt. 58.69; m.p. about 1,453°C;; b.p. about 2,732°C;; sp. gr. 8.902 at 25°C;; valence 0, +1, +2, +3, or +4. here, a dime there. Sometimes a whole dollar. Americans are watching their food bills creep upward as storms and drought have cut into the nation's food supply. A spot check by the Associated Press in several big U.S. cities found prices inching upward between late July and early August on bread, pasta While the only basic difference between these names is the shape of the pasta, each pasta is typically matched with a particular sauce based on cooking time, consistency, ability to hold sauce, ease of eating, etc. and meat. These increases come on top of a surge over the past year. But the survey also found stores putting meat, cereal cereal or grain Any grass yielding starchy seeds suitable for food. The most commonly cultivated cereals are wheat, rice, rye, oats, barley, corn, and sorghum. As human food, cereals are usually marketed in raw grain form or as ingredients of food products. and bread products on sale, cutting their profits on those items in the expectation of making up the discounts from regular-price food and household items. The government and many economists are warning that food prices will continue to rise into next year. The failure of the winter wheat winter wheat n. Wheat planted in the autumn and harvested the following spring or early summer. crop in parts of the Midwest is expected to push prices for bread and pasta higher, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. some estimates by as much as 8 percent. Meat and poultry poultry, domesticated fowl kept primarily for meat and eggs; including birds of the order Galliformes, e.g., the chicken, turkey, guinea fowl, pheasant, quail, and peacock; and natatorial (swimming) birds, e.g., the duck and goose. prices also showed signs of rising, although supermarkets are continually putting a variety of cuts on sale. For the time being, a shopper's total food bill may not rise that much because prices of other products are coming down, said Paul Bernish, a spokesman for Kroger Co., one of the country's biggest supermarket operators. Bernish noted that coffee prices, which shot higher last year because Brazil's crop was reduced by about half, have come back down. And prices for paper goods such as bathroom tissue have fallen because companies like Kimberly-Clark Corp. and Procter & Gamble Co. have cut the prices they charge. Mike Rourke, a spokesman for A&P, said food prices are only modestly higher. ``What does hold it tight is competitive activity'' among rival food retailers, he said. CAPTION(S): Photo, 2 Charts Photo: (Color) A grain truck is filled with harve sted corn. Associated Press Chart: (1--Color) Farm prices (2--Color) Consumer prices Associated Press |
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