Costco trimmed the price of a two-pound bag of Kirkland Signature walnuts from $13.79 to $9.99 as part of the fourth-quarter results it reported on September 24, 2026. Chief Financial Officer Gary Millerchip named the walnut cut on the earnings call alongside three other reductions, and Chief Executive Officer Ron Vachris told analysts the company…

President Trump says he has called for a ban on diesel exports, and the national average price of diesel reached $6.52 a gallon on September 23. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the administration is examining whether a full ban or a partial ban would work. The American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry’s largest trade group,…

A gallon of diesel costs $1.717 more in California than it does across the country as a whole, and the gap has been widening for months. The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s weekly survey put California’s on-highway diesel average at $8.246 a gallon on September 21, compared with $6.529 nationally that same week. The state’s price…

Drivers in Chicago paid an average of $4.879 a gallon for regular gasoline on September 21, up 45.9 cents from the week before. The increase, recorded in the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s weekly survey, was nearly three times the size of the gain posted for the country as a whole that same week. Gas in…

Two items in the grocery cart pulled far harder on household budgets than the rest of the cart over the past year. Beef and veal cost 5.9 percent more in August 2026 than a year earlier, and coffee cost 6.1 percent more, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index report. Both…

For the third week in a row, the national average price of regular gasoline moved higher, reaching $4.478 a gallon on September 21. The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s weekly survey put that $1.305 above the same week last year. Gasoline has not strung together a run of increases this size since the price spikes of…

On-highway diesel averaged $6.529 a gallon across the United States on September 21, the highest weekly price the federal government has recorded since it began tracking the fuel in March 1994. The number rose 24.4 cents in a single week and now sits $2.78 above where diesel stood a year earlier. Three straight weeks of…

The grocery bill looked flat in August, at least on the receipt’s bottom line. But two of the most ordinary items in the cart moved in opposite directions and by a lot: eggs got noticeably more expensive while lettuce got noticeably cheaper, extending a slide that started the month before. The Bureau of Labor Statistics…

Gasoline prices move every week across the country, but the size of last week’s move in Ohio stood out from the rest of the map. The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s latest survey shows Ohio’s average price for a gallon of regular gasoline climbing 26 cents in just seven days, a jump sharp enough to outpace…

Every October, food stamp benefits move by a set formula tied to inflation. What most households never see is the separate, much bigger lever sitting behind that formula — the government’s own periodic re-costing of what a healthy diet actually requires — and a 2025 law has now welded that lever shut for two more…