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U.S. Grocery Prices Since January 2020
Consumer Price Index for food at home, % change since January 2020
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI-U food at home, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted. BLS published no October 2025 index (the 2025 lapse in appropriations): the line breaks there.
The cumulative rise in what the same basket of groceries costs since January 2020, from the Consumer Price Index.
What this chart reads
- CPI-U: Food at home (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Food at home”latest 2026-09-01
Sources
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).
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