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“They have to be very conscious of where every dollar is going,” said Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union. “They can’t do everything that they were doing a few years ago, something has to give.”
Wallace and his wife have changed their grocery-shopping habits in response to rising costs. In prior years, they would order beef from a local farm and freeze it to use over time. Wallace said they stopped doing that this year after the cost of their order went up about $400. Now they look for sales at their local grocery stores.