Article Draft

Open with your sharpest finding or a small scene from the reporting. Hook the reader in a sentence or two.

The paragraph that says what this is and why it matters now — the peg and the point.

Plain language: what basket, which stores, which dates, and the limits. Showing your work is what earns trust.

Walk through your top findings; mark where each chart or map belongs.

Where do the owner and expert voices land, and what do they say?

The policy plan, Amazon/Whole Foods, the inflation numbers — in your framing.

Cheapest store overall; the store-hopping math; who wins where.

Basket-totals chart; the index; the store map; photo selects with captions and credits.

Consider linking your dataset, as the 2021 piece did.