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Average Price of Chocolate Chip Cookies in the U.S.

Per pound, $, monthly since January 2020

$5.15 in Sep 2026+$2.11 since Sep 2006
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U.S. recessionsShades the months the NBER dates as recession. U.S. charts only.5-year rangeThe highest and lowest readings of the last five years, as a band. One-series charts only.High and lowMarks the highest and lowest readings in the window shown.
Current·Data to Sep 2026

Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index average prices, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted. BLS published no October 2025 prices (the 2025 lapse in appropriations): the line breaks there.

The average U.S. retail price of chocolate chip cookies each month since January 2020, in dollars. One of a set of grocery charts drawn the same way so they can be read side by side.

What this chart reads

Sources

Average Price: Chocolate Chip Cookies (U.S.). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Average Price Data (APU0000702421), via FRED. Public domain.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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