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Americans are snacking less โ€” and that's a problem for the packaged food industry.

Why it matters: After years of inflation, consumers are recoiling, fed up with food price increases and suddenly immersed in economic uncertainty.

Driving the news: General Mills on Wednesday became the latest food giant to sound the alarm about what CEO Jeff Harmening called a "slowdown in snacking."

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Good, packaged snacks like this probably need to be a thing we increasingly cut out (in much higher percents than this.)