You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting for your grocery costs to follow suit--especially as every day brings another round of job cuts and falling profits.
South Carolina's The State reports this hasn't happened for a variety of factors, b