Inflation has been one of the biggest concerns among investors this holiday season, particularly when it comes to rising grocery prices. Bank of America recently conducted a food retailer pricing study in the city of Nashville to identify which food retailers are hiking prices the most and determine where consumers can still find the lowest…

Industry insiders and experts are predicting double-digit percentage price hikes on certain food and consumer goods in 2022, continuing the current trend of a rising cost of living. Canadians can expect to see a minimum 20 percent price increase on groceries and essential products, such as food, toilet paper, pharmaceuticals, home building materials, and gasoline…

Pop quiz: Which is the better buy? Pork tenderloin for $2.97 per pound or boneless pork chops at $3.47 per pound—taken from my local supermarket’s weekly ad? If you answered the tenderloin, you’re in good company. Most of us would, but we’d be wrong. Price per pound can be misleading because not all cuts of…

At our house, we’re getting much better with storing and using up produce. In fact, we’ve all but completely stopped throwing rotten produce into the garbage. Now, I’m taking it further by actually regrowing vegetables from scraps—in the kitchen window! It’s like my inner gardener has come out to play, and not a moment too…

There’s no love like old-time love, as one Illinois couple can attest to. Rockford-based photographer Tiffany Miller was privy to that vintage love—for her own grandparents, Bob and Judy Kissel, have been married 60 years. Miller, 33, recently immortalized their bond in their first-ever photo shoot together, and later told The Epoch Times of the…

A good deed was noticed in a Kroger parking lot in Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 2 when an elderly woman was struggling getting her groceries to the car. Local daycare owner Victoria Curtis, 36, saw three young men in the store parking lot spring into action to help the lady, who looked as though she might…

A cab driver in western Canada has been going above and beyond the call of duty for the last 15 years for his elderly clientele. Iqbal Alimohd, from Calgary, who has driven a taxi since 1978, has been helping—free of charge—dozens of seniors with their weekly struggle of buying groceries. And what began as a favor…

Perhaps you’ve noticed the cost of nearly everything is going up. The Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index, the agency that calculates the U.S. inflation rate, is predicting a very high inflation rate for 2021. Our annual inflation rate at the end of May was running at 5 percent. That is the highest rate…

Nearly everything at the store, from beef and cereal to fruit and veggies, costs more than it did a year ago. Inflation is the culprit eating away at your budget. You may not have noticed yet because it takes a while for these changes to trickle down. But we need to be keenly aware of…