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Grocery Inflation by Category
Change in food prices from a year earlier, food at home by group and food away from home, latest month, %
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted: each bar is the change in the category’s index from the same month a year earlier, the figure BLS publishes. Food at home is groceries; food away from home is restaurant, takeout and cafeteria meals.
What is driving the grocery bill: meat, poultry, fish and eggs, dairy, produce, cereals and bakery goods, drinks and everything else, beside the price of eating out.
What this chart reads·9 series
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- CPI-U: Food (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Food”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Food at home (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Food at home”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Cereals and bakery products (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Cereals and bakery products”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Dairy and related products (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Dairy and related products”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Fruits and vegetables (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Fruits and vegetables”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Nonalcoholic beverages (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Nonalcoholic beverages”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Other food at home (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Other food at home”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Food away from home (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Food away from home”latest 2026-09-01
Sources·9 sources
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CPI-U: Food (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SAF1: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SAF1. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Food at home (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SAF11: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SAF11. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Cereals and bakery products (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SAF111: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SAF111. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SAF112: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SAF112. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Dairy and related products (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SEFJ: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SEFJ. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Fruits and vegetables (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SAF113: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SAF113. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Nonalcoholic beverages (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SAF114: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SAF114. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Other food at home (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SAF115: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SAF115. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Food away from home (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SEFV: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SEFV. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
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