Transcript: Barbara & Richard Picard, residents of North Merrick

Transcript:

BARBARA & RICHARD PICARD,
RESIDENTS OF NORTH MERRICK

Amanda J. Rhodes, NassauNews.org: Have you noticed the increasing prices at the grocery store?

Richard Picard: (referring to wife) That's why you should talk to her. Yes, yes.

NassauNews.org: What have you, and have you noticed anything particular? Has it changed your shopping strategies at all?

(muffled voice in the background of Barbara Picard)

NassauNews.org: (laughing) Get on over here! Get on over here. Can you say that again?

Barbara Picard: Yea. We stopped buying produce here. We found a cheaper place for that.

NassauNew.org: Okay, so you've changed your shopping strategies.

BP: Yea.

NassauNews.org: Tell me what you think about the increasing prices. What do you think is the cause?

RP: I think part of it goes back to the increasing cost of gasoline and petroleum products, it's just raising everything.

NassauNews.org: What do you think you should be done about it? Do you think there should be any government intervention?

RP: I really don't know, because I'm a believer in free markets. I really don't know.

NassauNews.org: What have you done other than go somewhere else? Do you cut more coupons, or what are your strategies?

BP: I think that's about it.

NassauNews.org: So just price shop.

BP: Yea.

RP: Well we've always used coupons.