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Read the economic indicators from most media and the economy is soaring.
Watch Fox or talk to the MAGA crowd and the economy sucks. The numbers lie.
In the middle, some numbers matters: Mortgage rates pushing 7% and home and rent prices still through the roof as well as grocery store prices.
On observation: We were always Wegmans shoppers. We now realize Tops is cheaper. We don't by meat often from either anymore, preferring J.C. Heitman beef from the NT Market, chicken from a small farm in Wilson and Wild Fork Foods for seafood and sometimes pork.
Patchy rain nearby, with a high of 58 and low of 50 degrees. Patchy rain nearby for the morning, light rain shower overnight.