there's a lot of hashmaps here

src/main/java/io/zipcoder/ItemParser.java

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ public class ItemParser {
         return new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(inputString.split(stringPattern)));
     }
 
-    public void printToFile(String fileName, String rawItemData) throws FileNotFoundException, ItemParseException {
+    public static void printToFile(String fileName, String rawItemData) throws FileNotFoundException, ItemParseException {
 
         OutPutObject opo = new OutPutObject(parseRawDataIntoStringArray(rawItemData));
         PrintStream file = new PrintStream(new File(fileName));
@@ -63,8 +63,4 @@ public class ItemParser {
         System.setOut(file);
         System.out.println(opo.outputString());
     }
-
-
-
-
 }

src/main/java/io/zipcoder/Main.java

@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ public class Main {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
         String output = (new Main()).readRawDataToString();
         System.out.println(output);
-        // TODO: parse the data in output into items, and display to console.
+        ItemParser.printToFile("tariqsShoppingList.txt", output);
     }
 }

src/main/java/io/zipcoder/OutPutObject.java

@@ -56,10 +56,13 @@ public class OutPutObject {
                 temp.getPrices().addNewPrice(i.getPrice());
                 itemCounters.put(i.getName(), temp);
             } else {
-
                 temp = itemCounters.get(i.getName());
-                temp.getPrices().addNewPrice(i.getPrice());
-                temp.setCount(temp.getCount()+1);
+                if (!temp.getPrices().getPrices().keySet().contains(i.getPrice())) {
+                    temp.getPrices().addNewPrice(i.getPrice());
+                } else {
+                    temp.getPrices().IncrementPriceCounter(i.getPrice());
+                }
+                temp.setCount(temp.getCount() + 1);
                 itemCounters.put(i.getName(),temp);
             }
         }

src/main/java/io/zipcoder/Prices.java

@@ -21,4 +21,6 @@ public class Prices {
     public HashMap<Double, Integer> getPrices() {
         return prices;
     }
+
+
 }