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Taste of Home Soured by Weak $

Prices are up at the Green Farms Supermarket, a Polish foods specialty store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn – and the weak dollar is to blame.

For customers in the heavily Polish neighborhood, getting a taste of much-misssed homeland delicacies is getting more expensive. Merchants, meanwhile, are ordering less goods and fear a dropoff in business. Sebastian Bednarski reports.