Aside from rising food costs, shoppers who rely on pandemic-related emergency food stamps or snap benefits will now have less to spend on food.
"The anxiety is about 10. It's 10. It's a struggle out here," said Roxie Meyers, a new mom.
The average recipient will receive $90 less a month. New mom Roxie Meyers is worried about how she’s going to feed her family of six. "Hopefully it doesn't mean okay I've gotta skip a meal because I've skipped meals before because my kids, they eat first," Meyers said. "I walk through the other stores and I'm asking myself every time I go in there 'how can everyday regular Americans afford prices like these?'" said Phillip Francis, the store manager at ESH's Discount Groceries.
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