Beef and veal cost 11.8 percent more in June 2026 than in June 2025. Over the same twelve months, retail egg prices fell 27.9 percent and poultry finished 0.1 percent lower than where it started. Those numbers come out of the same USDA report, on the same page, measured the same way, and the distance…

The group affected here is easy to draw a line around: anyone paying with a SNAP EBT card in one of the 18 states whose federal food-restriction waiver is still standing. Eight of those states already run the restriction at the checkout lane. The other ten switch on between the last day of this month…

Additional duties on certain Canadian alcohol, dairy and vehicle imports now start at 12:01 a.m. eastern on August 22, and duties already collected are to be refunded.

Beef is doing something the rest of the grocery bill is not. While overall food prices are rising at a rate most households would call ordinary, the meat counter is running four times faster — and the reason sits in a cattle inventory that has been shrinking for years and cannot be reversed in one.…

Kroger set out a store-closure program more than a year ago and put a number on it in a quarterly earnings release. What the company has never published is a list. That gap is why the count of stores actually closed has been assembled by reporters rather than announced, and it is worth separating the…

For families that use SNAP benefits, what the card can buy is starting to depend on the state. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a wave of state waivers that bar SNAP dollars from purchasing soda, candy, and similar items, and after a court paused several of them, roughly 18 states now have restrictions…

For a family stretching a grocery budget, it helps to know the ceiling on food assistance. This year, the most a family of four can receive in SNAP benefits, the program still widely called food stamps, is $994 a month in most of the country. That figure sets the top of the scale, and while…

The weekly grocery run remains one of the clearest places households feel inflation, and the latest numbers show the squeeze has eased but not disappeared. Grocery prices are up 2.7% over the past year, with the produce aisle leading the way as fruits and vegetables climbed about 5%. There was some relief too, on meat,…

Prices crept higher again in July, and the pump is still where households feel the sting most. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that consumer prices rose 0.1% for the month, a return to rising prices after they slipped in June, and sat 3.4% above where they were a year ago. Gasoline actually fell over…

Lettuce costs about a third more than it did last June. Tomatoes cost roughly a fifth more. Fresh vegetables as a group ran close to 10 percent above where they sat a year earlier, and for a household that buys more or less the same list every week, the produce section is where the grocery…