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If you think grocery prices take a big bite out of your paycheck in the US, check out the rest of the world

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Peter Coclanis : Kamala Harris' call to ban price gouging on groceries has received a lot of attention.

He says food prices in the U.S. are the cheapest in the world, and have been for a long time.

But he says there are big differences between high-income countries such as Japan , Sweden , Norway , France and Italy , with the US percentage spent on food considerably lower than in any of these other rich countries.

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