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Inflation’s Silent Impact on American Family Businesses

Inflation’s Silent Impact on American Family Businesses
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Salena Zito
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MURRYSVILLE, Pa.—Seventy years after the Ferri family moved its grocery store to Westmoreland County from Turtle Creek, the family is calling it quits. The pressures of inflation and the unexpected closing of the Mainline Pharmacy, the independent pharmaceutical located inside their iconic structure, were the final two straws.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.