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On the recordDecember 14, 2011
Well, if you try to find different brands, you will see certain brands at eye level because they pay thousands of dollars to each grocery store to put it there. But if you want locally bottled soda, or pop, you are lucky if you can find it on the bottom shelf, and you probably can't. So we have like gatekeepers. The public is largely unaware of this. Local meat. I represent a region that is both urban and rural. I love it. I am privileged to represent it. Try to get locally produced pork on the shelves of large supermarket chains. Good luck. You know, the same is true with vegetables. We could have so much more income growth and job growth in this country if we would have some consciousness by these big retailers and box stores to go local. We grow local. We make local. But then to try to move it to the shelf, it's almost impossible.
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Marcy Kaptur
Democratic · Ohio

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