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Poultry and eggs, discounters raise prices at a higher rate than other grocers. the same for dairy. we tracked milk prices at a single dollar general store in texas. over a year, the price shot up 20%. in a statement, dollar general told us, like many other retailers, we have been forced to pass along certain product cost increases, though none to have the magnitude suggested by numerator. aldi didnt respond. still, discounters are cheaper than most other supermarkets that can only jack up price...

Biden with john kerry who exclusively fly private. so these are losing issues, the impact of all of his when jackie laid out that if are hard-working americans are hurt in his policies hurt hard-working americans who vote in the pricing scale up in their present jobs, and democrats actually cared about emissions, they would look towards things like natural gas, nuclear power as well with the dont care about this issue and they care about emissions all they care about is going to the other libera...

Fast food giant mcdonalds is now adding $2 items and shareable meals to the mix. its not the only one making changes to its popular low-cost menus. joling kent joins us now with an explanation. >> dollar menus are really changing across the board as more fast food chains grapple with how to lure in your business despite rising costs and changing demand. in january wendys right size, right price menu was altered, and burger kings low-price menu includes a $1.29 whopper jr. and arbys rolled out it...

The real razor of minimum wage is a prosperous economy. we know how we get that. its not what this administration is doing. >> morgan, should we get rid of the minimum wage? >> no. steve makes a great point in terms of a strong economy. but when you look at where the minimum wage came from, it came as a reaction to the great depression. we do not have a strong economy, we have stagnant wages across the board and we have consumers undying devotion to dollar menus. which pinch profits. until you l...

99 cent deals. mcdonalds and burger king have also moved away from their dollar menus. >> yesterday the dow soared more than 300 points on the fiscal cliff deal. right now the dow down 23 points, the s&p and nasdaq slightly in negative territory. well be right back. morning starts in high spirits, but theres a growing pain in his lower back. as lines grow longer, his pain continues to linger. but after a long day of helping others, he gets some helpful advice. just two aleve have the strength to...

Any longer than we have to. they are opening their doors at 8:00 p.m. trying to get a part of that market share away from target and kohls. so those shoppers will be able to go to walmart, go shopping on thanksgiving day. >> wow, mcdonalds, i hear, down first drop in its earnings? >> global sales is overall sinking for mcdonalds. what theyre trying to do is really focus on their dollar menus. that was a core value there. theyre going to concentrate on that and less more so on their higher end it...

Out the sales in asia, it was the chinese new year, a lot of people went out, went out to restaurants, went to mcdonalds. also in europe we saw relatively strong sales as well while stateside our sales were up not even 1%. part of the reason is the snowstorms, and part of the other reason that were seeing comes to unemployment as well. mcdonalds has done a lot to get more items on their dollar menus, also to get more items in their coffee menus as well, but people are not commuting to work becau...