‘What am I going to do?’: soaring prices fuel calls for US government to step in

Customers shop at a Dollar Tree store in New York. Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock

Outside a Dollar Tree in Detroit, Latasha Holmes lamented the rising cost of toilet paper, beverages, food and other items she had just purchased. The price increases, she said, were forcing her to choose among necessities for her and four kids.

“What am I going to do? Prices are up everywhere, all over town,” she said. “I can’t afford everything.”