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John Pritchett: Market Price

Hawaii has always been an expensive place to live, but a bottleneck in international supply chains due to COVID-19 has dramatically increased the costs of groceries.

By John Pritchett

June 20, 2021 · 1 min read

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John Pritchett

John Pritchett is an award-winning cartoonist. He has created artwork in Hawaii for decades, including 20 years at the Honolulu Weekly. See his portfolio on the web at: pritchettcartoons.com. Opinions are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Civil Beat’s views.

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About the Author

John Pritchett

John Pritchett is an award-winning cartoonist. He has created artwork in Hawaii for decades, including 20 years at the Honolulu Weekly. See his portfolio on the web at: pritchettcartoons.com. Opinions are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Civil Beat’s views.

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Rail, the Jones Act, high taxes, overregulations all contribute to our high cost of living.

macprohawaii · 2 years ago

Shop the local farmers markets and use coupons and check sale prices at grocery stores. Saves me a lot!

jthoepfel · 2 years ago

Just temporary, renormalization reflation of all the essentials of everything we need. We all can laugh our way down the food store aisles as they reprice the box we're grabbing and place a higher price tag on it........If we hesitate and laugh, it will cost us more. Hahaha....

Joseppi · 2 years ago

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