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LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. — Ask almost any shopper outside this sprawling Walmart southeast of Savannah, and they'll tell you about rising prices. "The meat is going up. Milk, eggs, everything is going up," says Cicely Gardner, rolling a cart with some doughnuts in the parking lot. But wait. The rate of …

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