In Wisconsin, the local Piggly Wiggly has become ground zero for economic discontent. Voters say high grocery prices could determine their pick for president.
The local Piggly Wiggly in Sheboygan is ground zero for economic discontent in an area with low unemployment and great job prospectsSHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Dawn Mohr stopped by the local Piggly Wiggly to pick up $6 worth of pork steaks last week and immediately remembered just how much she’s grown to hate grocery shopping.
In interviews with more than three dozen shoppers at three stores, almost all cited high food prices as a major financial hurdle. Many said they were sticking with the candidate they voted for last time — either because Trump was better for the economy, or because they valued President Biden’s position on other issues like abortion rights. But nearly a third said inflation had led them to revise their opinions, and some were even considering voting for the first time because of food prices.
In Sheboygan County, where the Piggly Wiggly is located, 57 percent of residents voted for Trump the last time around, which means Biden has a tougher job here than in other parts of the state. chain snags and labor shortages — combined with heightened demand, as more Americans ate at home — pushed up food costs across the board. More recently, rising wages, the war in Ukraine and a host of natural disasters, including droughts and the largest
The Biden administration has taken steps to make groceries more affordable by bringing down fertilizer prices “I hate to not vote, but at the end of the day I don’t feel like either of them deserve it again,” he said of Trump and Biden. “Give me a blue-collar worker, someone who knows what it’s like when the price of eggs spikes and meat doubles.”
Longseth, a retired medical secretary, and her husband are still shopping the way they used to, she said. And she doesn’t plan to change her voting habits, either: She’ll support Biden again.“There’s never been any question about how I would vote in the election,” she said. “And no amount of inflation or bad news would change that.”
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