Boston Globe: ‘A massive win’: After Stop & Shop lowers Jamaica Plain store prices, youth organizers rejoice

The youth organizers of Hyde Square Task Force are claiming success, once again.

Nearly two years after releasing a grassroots study on pricing differences at Boston-area Stop & Shop locations, in which the students found a grocery cart of items at their nearby Jackson Square store cost $34 more than a list of similar products in the more affluent Dedham, the prices at both stores are now roughly equal.

During an April shopping trip to both stores, with the same shopping list they first used in 2023, the students found prices for most of the items purchased in Jackson Square and Dedham are now nearly identical. In fact, the two-pound packs of Bubba’s frozen turkey and beef burgers in Dedham were both listed at slightly higher prices.

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