In his two decades running DurDur Bakery and Grocery in Minneapolis, owner Nur Hadi Ahmed doesn’t remember a Ramadan like this.
The prices of milk, ghee, cheese and eggs are up. So is the cost of halal goat and lamb. He tries to limit what he passes on to his customers, but he says the increases are weighing on him and on families that are “already cash-strapped.”
“The product that we’re receiving from the wholesaler, it’s way more expensive than what we were receiving last Ramadan,” he said…