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News 12 Connecticut's Mark Sudol visited a popular store to get the Real Deal on what you need to know about grocery savings. 

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And fun. Now, let's get a check of your forecast with meteorologist Michelle Powers, maybe some festive flakes as well. Exactly. Some people may refer to this weather as festive and fun as well. I know not so much. It's going to be a little tough getting up and out the door, especially if you don't like the cold. It's going to be cold tomorrow, even colder on Thursday, the afternoon. Temperatures too running below average, but there are milder days just a few days away and they come back over the weekend. But at the same time, we're going to be tracking some rain Sunday could end up being very soggy. There could be some thunderstorms and even some gusty winds. This looks like a really sharp cold front coming through. So that could be powerful and pack a lot of moisture. In the meantime, our atmosphere is lacking of that moisture and it feels very bitter again, temperatures on their way to freezing or below and then look at the next several days, still cold Thursday. But Friday is sort of that transition because beyond Friday, temperatures return to the fifties. So during that time, the system coming our way is going to bring rain. It's going to be way too warm for any type of snow or anything frozen Sunday into Monday. This could be a lot of rain coming at us and there could be some gusty winds as well. So right now the theme is cold and that is here to stay. So it may look a bit festive tomorrow even into Thursday with a couple of broken showers or flurries don't count on too much though. That storm offshore is a little too far away and it jets out of here, but it brings the cold. Eventually, the milder air will take over for the end of the week and out ahead of that front on Friday and Saturday, temperatures are really going to warm up. So there's rain on the way for that. In the meantime, though temperatures tomorrow, here we go, running below average. So even though it's the afternoon when you think this is where we hit, our high temperatures temps are stopping in the forties, 41 in Stanford, 41 in Milford and Cornwall, one of the colder spots only 36 degrees. So again, with the weather headlines that just want to emphasize again, the morning wind chills are going to be tough to get through, but stick around that 10 day forecast is coming up next and we'll talk about those warmer days ahead and what exactly will open our will come our way on Sunday, Tina back to you. Thanks.

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The Real Deal: What to know about grocery savings  

Food away from home that's dining out in restaurants. That's still expensive up almost 7.5% from last year. Costs of just about everything seems to continue to rise, even alcoholic beverages. But news 12 Connecticut's mark. So went to a popular store to get the real deal on what you need to know when you're checking out at the grocery store. Your bill may be more expensive and I've got two boys at home. You're shopping for your family. It's tough right now. But Stew Leonard's Chief operating Officer, Jake Tollo says you can find deals on the Stew Leonard's app and buying private label items can usually save about 30% when you buy private label versus the name brands. Tollo says now that last year's bird flu is behind us, eggs are actually a dollar package right now compared to last year. Butters gone down too. But he says the price of red meat is still high because stew's ranchers say high fuel costs, their feed has gone up. They have to figure out how much cattle to raise. Tao says instead, fish and chicken are affordable sources of protein and milk keeps chugging along at consistent prices. I understand. You know, it's tough and obviously you're looking at your receipt and it seems like it just keeps going up and up. But I think, you know, especially at ST we're working really hard to keep costs down and as soon as we see relief, we're going to pass it on to the customers. So every time you're in our store, we're happy that you came, you can shake off high prices. I'm Mark. And that's the real deal. Ok. Caleb Silver says that used cars and trucks. So those prices are down as well. Over 6%. Household energy is down, almost 10%.

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