This fall the price cut has become the grocery industry’s favorite announcement.

I understand why retailers are doing this - our shoppers are angry and exhausted. They’re paying more at the pump, they’ve watched their grocery bill climb for five straight years, they are nervous about the economy and what’s going on in our nation’s capital and they’ve gotten very good at splitting one week’s shopping across three or four stores to get deals.

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