A customer purchases milk at JJ&F Market in Palo Alto, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. In the U.S., retail food prices have jumped on average 6 percent this year — triple the normal inflation rate of around 2 percent — as soaring demand for grains coupled with severe weather around the globe battered crops and sent world prices for rice, flour and other staples soaring.
(Photo: AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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