Wait until you go to the grocery store this week,. I thought I'd faint.

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84. How long are we all going to take this quietly??

Every week we recoil at the new prices, and we adjust our menus, and we go without, and we don't speak our minds in any way that will make us heard.

It's almost as if we give our tacit permission for this thievery.

While we pay up at the checkout, either cheerfully or grimly or quietly, entities like Kroger report earnings up 20 or 30 or 40 percent for the quarter. (And we know they aren't passing any profits on to their employees!)

I suppose we could each make a point of speaking to our local store manager and asking about the rise in prices. What is the reason? What does the store intend to do about it? What is the store's profit margin?

And we could encourage our local media to report on the cost of food.

Any other ideas?

I'm going to start speaking to the store manager when I see that something has jumped dramatically and unprecedentedly. Walnuts, for example. Went from $5.99/pound to $7.99. 100 tablets of store brand ibuprofen went from $2.98 to $4.19.

We may not be able to affect policy, but we can at least let them know at the local level that we are not happy.