On June 29, local time, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (Janet Yellen) rarely appeared in "street photography".
The 77-year-old dignitary, along with her husband, George Akerlof, walked out of a grocery store in Washington, D.C. It can be seen from the shopping cart pushed by the couple that this shopping trip is really a full return, and the American media even used the phrase "hoarding food".
That's the supermarket that Yellen and her economist husband, Akerloff, visited, is an American regional supermarket chain headquartered in Maryland with a total of 166 stores.
It is reported that this supermarket is not the kind of high-end food store that "only sells organic food", but is a very ordinary supermarket. That said, although Yellen's net worth is estimated at $20 million (about 145 million RMB), she doesn't have to be significant that she is "different".
Yellen and her husband, pushing the shopping cart, look like ordinary old husbands and wives, and even judging from the gray hair of the two people, it feels like they should have retired, but in fact, they are sticking to their posts and just using the weekend time to shop.
Perhaps it can be said from this photo that they prefer to be low-key, but this is not the case......
This is the convoy where Yellen was waiting for a supermarket, and according to the New York Post, six bodyguards accompanied the Yellen couple as they shopped. Perhaps the U.S. Treasury Secretary wants to get a feel for the shopping trip of ordinary people, but her identity does not allow her to be so ordinary.
In fact, this is obviously not the first time that Yellen has gone to the supermarket (whether she is active or passive), and the reason why she has attracted attention this time is because her attitude when answering the inflation question a few days ago made many Americans unhappy, criticizing her for "not taking food prices seriously".
In an interview with Yahoo Finance's Jennifer Schonberger, Yellen quickly answered questions about grocery prices. It is reported that the price of groceries in the United States has risen by an average of 20% compared with before the "pandemic", which is indeed a big shock for ordinary people.
"Have you been to the supermarket lately?" "Of course I went, I went every week," Yellen replied.
"The price is shocking, isn't it? Looking at the cost of transportation, costs have come down, global food commodity prices have come down, but [our] food prices are still high. Should the U.S. invest in agriculture to increase the country's food supply? Seanberg continued to ask, and before she could finish her sentence, Yellen answered bluntly, "No!" ”
Yellen continued: "I think this largely reflects the increase in costs, including the increase in labor costs experienced by supermarket operating companies, although margins are likely to increase. She said she had met with the CEOs of several supermarkets, including Target, who told her they were cutting costs on all the goods Americans need, such as bread, milk, wet diapers and other "core purchases."