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Jennifer L. Hall
From:Surya Setty <suryasetty23@gmail.com>
Sent:Monday,
To:Public Comment
Subject:\[EXTERNAL\] City Council Meeting Agenda Item for Consideration | December 6th,
2022
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Hello City of Anaheim,
My name is Surya, and I attend Savanna High School. I would like to present the item of inflation, especially in
terms of food security in our community of West Anaheim. This problem has been especially exacerbated over
the pandemic and inflation over the past year. This problem takes away from family budgets and amplifies
poverty in our community.
Background Information:
Rising Costs of Living are making the lives of people in our district worse. As of September 2022,
food prices have increased by 13.5% year over year. Rising food prices are so drastic that consumer
habits have changed. Consumers go to the store less often, buy in bulk, and shop online less often.
These prices invade our household budgets and result in poorer lives for the everyday individual. We
would also like you to recognize the effects of “shrinkflation” affecting both the size of products and
price of products. This process often permanently reduces the size of products and increases the
price of such products, resulting in inflation often being larger than reported for the same product.
Rippling supply chain complications have been the primary hindrance in re-establishing fixed
consumer food prices. Workforce reductions have been slow in repair since the 2019 pandemic, and
since then it has become increasingly difficult to garner support in favor of policy change and
consumer demand due to the fact that the issue at hand has stagnated. Because the supply chain is
without the ability to be directly controlled, it subsequently cannot be directly addressed. Instead, a
number of work-around policies must be employed in order to affect the problem.
With Best Regards,
Surya Setty
Senior at Savanna High School
Thriving is more than just surviving.
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