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April 18
Price disparity in groceries

By David Migoya
The Denver Post

It’s not cheap being poor.

Few places reflect that reality more than the aisles of a grocery store, where prices seemingly increase daily as the economy teeters toward recession.

“It’s not very easy to make do right now,” said Kathryn White, a 58-year-old disabled nurse who relies on a small food-stamp stipend to offset high grocery costs.

“I just can’t look to buy something that costs $2,” she said. “I have my limits.”

Those limits are stretched even more when food-stamp recipients like White find higher prices at their local supermarket for the same items that are less expensive within the same chain, but in a more-affluent neighborhood across town.

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