ALL THE MONEY NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW | | | | | | Daniel de Visé | Personal Finance Reporter
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Good morning! It's Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money. |
Happy Consumer Friday. I'm filling in for Betty Lin Fisher. |
Latasha Warner does everything she can to keep food costs down. |
She avoids restaurants, buys off-brand products, avoids meat that's not on sale and travels out of town to shop at bigger, more affordable chains. And still, she says the $200 she spent on groceries Tuesday didn't buy enough food to last the week for her, her husband and two children. |
Grocery inflation has cooled substantially since its 2022 peak, and groceries are causing less of a hit on Americans' budgets. |
The high price of summer parenting |
Summer vacation lasts 11 weeks for the Restrepos. And the Michigan family has nine of them covered, thanks to a Kids Club program offered by the local public schools. |
But summer camp is not free. The Restrepos are paying $225 per kid per week: $4,050 for both children for those nine weeks. |
"Honestly, I don't know what we'd do without it," William Restrepo said. |
The price of parenting tends to spike in summer, when tax-funded public education gives way to parent-funded daycare and sleepaway camps. Inflation pads the bill. |
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A Florida woman upset that Reese's holiday-themed chocolates did not feature the same cute designs she claims were shown on its packaging sued manufacturer Hershey's for false advertisement. |
In a lawsuit filed on Dec. 28 in Florida's Middle District Court, Cynthia Kelly sued Hershey's for $5 million, alleging that the company misled buyers with "false and deceptive advertising" on their packaging. |
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