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…

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…