Laker Jared Dudley On Rising Grocery Prices: `This isn’t Right’

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00:00 I'm Melissa Roland with Sports Illustrated and we're here with Jill Painter-Lopez.

00:06 And in the middle of a pandemic and after George Floyd's death, amongst all of the unrest

00:11 in the country, Jared Dudley tweeted about something that has been bothering him and

00:17 that's supermarket prices going up and them taking advantage of these situations.

00:21 What did he say, Jill?

00:23 Well, Melissa, he retweeted an article that talked about grocery store prices up 4.2%.

00:29 And he said, "This is not right.

00:32 Unemployment rates are still at an all-time high."

00:34 And certainly I think he's correct there.

00:37 Jared Dudley has been one of the Lakers, including LeBron James, Kyle Kuzma, has been using his

00:42 voice to discuss things like the pandemic, George Floyd's death, and certainly now grocery

00:47 store prices.

00:48 So I think the more people who are raising their voices about this increase in food,

00:53 which we know one of the most important things that people need to buy, whether they have

00:58 jobs or not, is certainly food for their families.

01:01 So again, credit Jared Dudley for taking a stand and tweeting about that article about

01:06 the rising cost of groceries.

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