Grocery inflation highest since 2022 as Trump tariffs pile up

[riversedge]

I missed this article from 2 days ago, but I did not need an article to
to tell me that grocery prices are UP UP UP!



Grocery inflation highest since 2022 as Trump tariffs pile up

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Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Chart: Axios Visuals

Sep 11, 2025 -

Grocery inflation highest since 2022 as Trump tariffs pile up

Kelly Tyko, Ben Berkowitz

President Trump spent his 2024 campaign promising Americans he'd lower grocery prices.

Virtually all major grocery categories are now more expensive than they were a year ago, some substantially so.

Why it matters: Trump's economic polling numbers are about the worst they've ever been, and almost on par with the worst of the Biden presidency.

Whatever growth the administration says is coming from its trade and industrial policy, nothing is more vivid to households than what they pay to feed themselves.

Driving the news: The food-at-home component of the Consumer Price Index rose 0.6% in August from July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Thursday.

This was the biggest month-over-month increase since August 2022, the tail end of a year of huge monthly increases in grocery prices.

The big picture: Trump has framed his tariffs on China, steel and other imports as a way to protect American workers and bring down costs.......................

[Justice Brandeis]

1. Is a regular sized carton of strawberries supposed to cost $5.49?

Because what I just paid this morning.

[lostincalifornia]

2. of course that is not what will get reported. Instead they will push the revenue

taken in with the tariffs, also ignoring that the tariffs are being paid by American consumers. Don’t want to inform anyone that it is a tax.