staple
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Grocery prices rose roughly 25% between 2019 and 2023, hitting staple foods especially hard.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
Hewson says the UK supermarket sector is "massively competitive", and most will sell some staple products at a loss to get people through the door.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
While beef burgers are a Memorial Day cookout staple for many, there are more affordable options such as hot dogs, turkey burgers and chicken.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
“At least for the next week, while I still have the staple in my head, I definitely am just gonna keep a distance,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
These are familiar to us precisely because they also spread into climatically similar adjacent areas of Europe, thence to America and Australia, and became some of the staple crops of temperate-zone agriculture around the world.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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