Overall food prices were up 11.4% in August, the biggest annual jump since 1979, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Grocery prices rose 13.5% last month over the same time a year ago.

In the United States, consumer prices climbed 3% in June — a gentle rise compared with a four-decade high of 9.1% hit a year before. Data due Thursday is expected to show that US inflation ...

In November, egg prices shot up by 8.2% nationwide, logging one of the highest monthly spikes in the past two decades, according to Consumer Price Index data released last week. And it’s not ...

Beef prices also saw prices rise at a faster clip than overall food prices in December, both on an annual and monthly basis. Beef and veal prices increased 0.5% in December from the prior month ...

Food prices account for about 13.5% of the overall CPI. Bird Flu’s Impact on Egg Prices U.S. officials confirmed a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza in a commercial flock in February 2022.

Food prices have risen 11.4% from August 2021 to August 2022, according to the most recent Consumer Price Index report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nearly every food item is now Subscribe ...

The most recent Consumer Price Index report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says that food-at-home prices have risen 10% in the last 12 months, the largest 12-month increase since March 1981.

Prices are up 2.7% compared to a year ago and up .3% between May and June, that's according to data from the U.S. Department ...

When averaging the year-over-year food prices for the past six months, the price increase was 6.2%. There hasn’t been a six-month period higher than that in more than 30 years.

But even as customer traffic slipped, the higher prices translated into pricier orders, with McDonald's same-stores sales up 8.1% and the company reporting $6.69 billion revenue for the third quarter.

The United Nations food agency's world price index rose in April for the first time in a year, but is still some 20% down on a record high hit in March 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Food prices are on the rise again. What’s behind the increase ... “That’s the difficult part — you’re unlikely to see food prices fall significantly and revert to 2019 levels,” Daco said.