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http://investmentwatchblog.com/inflation-alert-grocers-are-starting-to-pass-along-their-higher-wholesale-costs-to-consumers/

September. “I will be grilling more vegetables and shrimp this summer,” she says, adding that she and her husband will likely eat beef once a month instead of weekly. “And I may switch to pork and chicken.” Food prices increased 0.4% after posting a similar jump in February, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday. That’s the largest monthly increase since September 2011. Beef, pork, poultry, eggs and milk have had the most dramatic price hikes as drought, a virus outbreak and rising exports have thinned U.S. supplies. Overall consumer prices rose 0.2% in March, a bit more rapidly than...