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1. Sam Grove says:

   March 21, 2008 at 12:55 pm

   My local bagel supplier has been commenting on the increasing price of flour. This was also front page news recently.
2. Rich Kozlovich says:

   March 21, 2008 at 4:17 pm

   The cost of flour has increased so rapidly that most small bakers are having very real difficulties. For the most part, according to one of my customers, they are absorbing the cost themselves, hoping to ride out this storm without losing to many regular customers. A little bit of profit is better than no profit mentality. However, this can’t go on forever and with all the food costs escalating it must be expected that more people will cut more “extras” from their daily lives. This customer is a regular listener of NPR and even they realize (begrudgingly) that the greenies ideas about ethanol and biofuels are an economic disaster in the making.

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