Grocery shopping in New York on a tight budget is a nightmare. A walk through a store on the Upper West Side is enough to see that a $10 bill only buys a dozen eggs or a chocolate bar; with seven or eight dollars you can get a pound of chicken breast or a pack of four yogurts. A City Hall report estimated last year that food prices have risen 56% over the past decade, 10 percentage points higher than the U.S. average.
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