Source: Mackensy Lunsford, BLUERIDGE NOW, 5/26/20

 A once-typical visit to the grocery store can now be fraught with anxiety with one-way aisles and shelves cleared of some essentials. Add to that sticker shock for nearly every conceivable food item, and grocery shopping has become not only surreal but expensive. Grocery store prices in April took the biggest monthly leap since February 1974, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly Consumer Price Index report.

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