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Breakfast Cereal Is About to Get More Expensive

Breakfast Cereal Is About to Get More Expensive

By Mike Pomranz | FoodAndWine.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Foodie General Mills is raising its prices in mid-January, according to a new report. Pretty much everything is getting more expensive. The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly its disruptions to the transportation and labor markets, has driven up most industries' underlying costs resulting in a spike in inflation. Snacks? More expensive. Turkeys? More expensive. Even slices of $1 pizza no longer cost a dollar. (You'd think they could just cut the slices thinner, but I guess this is why I don't own a $1 pizza joint.) Plenty of packaged good brands have already spoken about their…
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Major Grocery Store Brands Are Raising Their Prices

Major Grocery Store Brands Are Raising Their Prices

By Mike Pomranz | FoodAndWine.Com Troy Warren for CNT Unilever, Mondelez, and General Mills are just some of the companies that have been pushing their prices upwards to deal with increased costs. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic sent grocery store prices soaring to their largest increase in a decade. The effect of that economic chaos isn't going anywhere, apparently, as supermarket prices on the brands we know and love are likely to continue creeping upward for at least the immediate future. Yesterday, Unilever — one of the world's largest consumer goods companies and owner of iconic brands like Hellmann's, Lipton, Ben & Jerry's, and…
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