PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Labor Day weekend is a time when lots of people head to the grocery store to get ingredients for the last barbecue of summer. However, grocery prices this year have some people thinking twice.

Holly Reid of Southwest Philadelphia left the ACME in Bala Cynwyd holding a brown paper bag with a couple of chip bags peeking out from the top. Though they could have been a compliment to a Labor Day barbecue, for her, they were simply a snack.

"To me, Labor Day weekend is just another day," Reid said. She has no plans for a celebration.

Others leaving the store shared their intentions to avoid a cookout for Labor Day.

"No, I'm not grilling," said Natyra Johnson of Chester. "I'll probably go out because I don't know. I'm not doing it."

Many of the shoppers who spoke with

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