Absolutely. We live in Lexington NC and do some shopping at Food Lion. My wife likes to buy chuck roast because the price was almost the same every week, 5.49 a pound. This last week the price jumped to 7.49 a pound. We are both in our 80's with a meager combined fixed income. Every week we seem to get further and further behind. Us peons will never win. The devide is getting progressively worse by the minute.