Rachel Wolfe
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900 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2022
last heard May 2024
Rachel Wolfe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So whenever she goes to her parents out in Long Island, she'll visit the grocery stores there.
She'll head to Trader Joe's to buy snacks and to Target, where milk is even cheaper than it is in the city.
And then when they're at their home in the Berkshires, they'll often...
again, go to the grocery stores there, but also visit local farms to buy meat and cheese.
And they said that buying directly from farmers is actually just about the same cost-wise as it is to go to the supermarket these days, whereas it used to feel a lot more expensive.
When people think that deodorant should cost, say, $4 because they've been paying $4 for deodorant
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a decade, maybe longer, and then it actually costs $8, people are upset about more than just losing that $4.
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They feel like something is deeply structurally wrong.
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In some ways, it's of course better, but it does mean that prices are still rising.
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They're just rising at a slower pace.
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Exactly.
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Although people aren't necessarily feeling it slowly, they're feeling it whacked over their head every time they do something like go to the grocery store or buy a cup of coffee.
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It's a little bit complicated.
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From our reporting, we found that people understood prices going up during the deep pandemic amid worker shortages, supply chain disruptions, runs on certain goods like toilet paper, of course.
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But as we get further and further away from the height of the pandemic, people are a little bit less tolerant.
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They don't understand why things are still so expensive.
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They expected it to be better by now.
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Expecting to see one total at checkout then paying far more is contributing to a disconnect.
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Widespread malaise in an otherwise strong economy, economists and consumers themselves say.
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Basically, when people think that deodorant should cost, say, $4 because they've been paying $4 for deodorant,
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