{"id":1145959,"date":"2021-12-23T10:19:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T15:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1145959"},"modified":"2021-12-23T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T15:19:55","slug":"this-crazy-human-elizabeth-warren-slammed-after-blaming-grocery-stores-for-soaring-food-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-crazy-human-elizabeth-warren-slammed-after-blaming-grocery-stores-for-soaring-food-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Crazy Human\u2019: Elizabeth Warren Slammed After Blaming Grocery Stores For Soaring Food Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthis-crazy-human-elizabeth-warren-slammed-after-blaming-grocery-stores-for-soaring-food-prices%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1145959&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Critics pummeled Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) after she blamed supermarkets and grocery stores for rising food prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiant grocery store chains force high food prices onto American families while rewarding executives &amp; investors with lavish bonuses and stock buybacks. I\u2019m demanding they answer for putting corporate profits over consumers and workers during the pandemic,\u201d Warren said in a tweet on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Her tweet followed up a letter she sent to the heads of the grocery chains Kroger, Albertsons, and Publix, accusing them of using the pandemic and growing inflation to raise prices and fleece consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour company, and the other major grocers who reaped the benefits of a turbulent 2020, appear to be passing costs on to consumers to preserve your pandemic gains, and even taking advantage of inflation to add greater burdens,\u201d Warren <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/consumer\/food-suppliers-blame-inflation-price-hikes-lawmakers-say-padding-bill-rcna9200\">wrote<\/a> in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>During the pandemic as local and state governments shut down restaurants and bars, grocery store and supermarket sales rose as shoppers\u2019 options were restricted by heavy-handed mandates. Kroger and Albertson\u2019s used the opportunity to buy back stock, while Publix increased dividends to its shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>Warren accused the grocery chains of choosing greed over their employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour companies had a choice: They could have retained lower prices for consumers and properly protected and compensated their workers, or granted massive payouts to top executives and investors,\u201d Warren wrote. \u201cIt is disappointing that you chose not to put your customers and workers first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critics blasted Warren for attempting to cover the impact of inflation under Democrat control of Washington, D.C., by blaming the grocers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome might say that Warren and her political allies were the biggest catalyst of the inflation we\u2019re seeing now,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckRossDC\/status\/1473140306648473604\">said<\/a> Chuck Ross, an investigative reporter at The Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis crazy human,\u201d Daily Wire\u2019s editor emeritus Ben Shapiro <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1473292682697101322\">quipped<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pradheep Shanker, CEO of the Neoavatara Foundation, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Neoavatara\/status\/1473266552141008902\">said<\/a>, \u201cThere was a time Warren was a serious economist, right? Because she has become a complete clown now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response to Warren\u2019s letter, food industry representatives defended grocers, blaming the price spike on inflation and supply chain issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrent price increases are due to a combination of supply chain challenges \u2014 from labor and transportation shortages to higher fuel costs and increased consumer demand,\u201d FMI, the Food Industry Association said in a statement. \u201cGrocers are doing everything they can to absorb these cost increases, and we ask consumers to continue working with us as we recalibrate our supply chains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inflation has soared to the highest level in decades. In November, the United States hit its highest year-over-year surge in prices since 1990. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-bidenflation-price-increases-soar-to-30-year-high-outpace-economist-predictions\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p><em>The consumer price index, a basket of products economists use to track overall changes in price, surged 6.2% from October 2020 to last month, the fastest annual rate since 1990. Inflation during the month of October alone surged 0.9%, driving the year-over-year rate above the 5.9% that economists predicted. Monthly inflation in October was expected to clock in at 0.6%, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/11\/10\/consumer-price-index-october.html\">CNBC<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics pummeled Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) after she blamed supermarkets and grocery stores for rising food prices. \u201cGiant grocery store chains force high food prices onto American families while rewarding executives &#038; investors with lavish bonuses and stock buybacks. I\u2019m demanding they answer for putting corporate profits over consumers and workers during the pandemic,\u201d Warren &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}