Ground beef has been one of the more visible price increases at U.S. grocery stores this year, and the federal government just made a second attempt this year to address it through trade policy rather than direct payments. A presidential proclamation signed August 26 temporarily expands how much beef can enter the country without paying…

Walmart’s most recent quarterly earnings release places two numbers side by side. The retailer says it received nearly $2.9 billion in tariff refunds during its second fiscal quarter of 2027, the three months ending in early August, and that its U.S. stores delivered more than 11,000 price rollbacks over that same stretch. Walmart presents the…

Grocery shoppers using SNAP benefits in South Carolina and North Dakota are about to see fewer items ring up as eligible purchases. Both states received federal waivers letting them remove certain products from the program’s approved food list, and the clock has nearly run out on the old rules. The changes take effect one day…

Beef and veal cost 9.4 percent more in July 2026, the most recent month with published federal price data, than they did a year earlier, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The department’s Economic Research Service now forecasts beef and veal prices will finish all of 2026 up 9.8 percent, a projection tied directly…

The average price of diesel fuel in the United States hit $5.6046 a gallon this week, according to AAA’s daily national survey, up from $3.7072 a gallon a year ago — a gap of about $1.90. Almost nobody drives a diesel-powered car to the grocery store, so that number rarely shows up on a household’s…

AAA’s daily fuel-price tracker has never made this claim about any previous August: not one day this month has closed with the national average below $4 a gallon. That finding, published in AAA’s August 27, 2026 report, means a household that fills up two vehicles a week has been paying real extra money at the…

Grocery carts in Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Tennessee and West Virginia can hold soda, candy and other recently-banned items again without the SNAP card getting rejected at the register. A federal judge in Washington threw out the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s approval of each state’s food-restriction waiver, and the agency has since told grocers, in writing,…

Kroger, the country’s largest traditional supermarket operator, is working through a plan to close about 60 of its stores — and for the towns losing one, the hit lands on both the grocery aisle and the in-store pharmacy at once. The retailer laid out the plan in mid-2025 and has been carrying it out on…

Two staples of the American kitchen table have gotten conspicuously more expensive, and the grocery receipt shows it. Federal price data from around April 2026 put ground beef up roughly 19 percent over the past year and coffee up about 20 percent. Both increases dwarf the broader grocery basket, which rose far more modestly, meaning…

Grocery prices are running about 2.7 percent higher than a year ago, a pace that has held steady for months even as overall inflation cools. That is slower than the painful spikes of a few years back, but it is still a real squeeze at the checkout, and it lands hardest on households that spend…