A Clinton grocery store owner is working to keep grocery prices down in the middle of some worst inflation he's seen in his career.

Dave Jackson owns the Clinton Save-A-Lot in Clinton and explains the challenge is keeping food prices down while making a profit. He calls the last four years the most challenging he's ever been through.

Coming out of COVID, finding certain items could be challenging, and the specific items that would be low in supply but high in demand would change from week to week or month to month. Jackson says they are, for the most part, getting items in regularly now. 

According to Jackson, he hears often from customers their appreciation of his efforts to keep prices low and indicates they get customers from all over central Illinois that come to Clinton to shop at Save-A-Lot.

As far as inflation, Jackson says some items will return to normal or close to what they were before COVID but other items he says you will not see go back down.

As the fresh produce season rolls in, Save-A-Lot will, and already is, advertising locally grown produce they'll have on its shelves. You can keep up with what they have by stopping into 205 East Washington Street in Clinton or finding them on Facebook.