In the Midwest, grocery prices remained stable from Nov. to Dec. 2025, but the overall price of food at home was still up 1.8% over the past year.

U.S. companies delivered an unwelcome message to inflation-weary consumers: Prices are going up. Hormel Foods, J.M. Smucker, and Ace Hardware announced this week that they would raise prices for ...

How is the American consumer reacting to tariffs that threaten to raise prices? Not well. Only 20% of American consumers feel prepared to absorb tariff-driven price increases, according to a survey ...

Oversupply and weakening consumer demand have been causing milk, butter and cheese prices on the wholesale market and at the grocery store to fall slightly. The lower prices on the dairy staples are ...

Researchers tracking prices at major retailers are seeing prices trend up after tariffs, but at a relatively modest rate. The paper, titled “Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of U.S. Tariffs” from ...

For companies in the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) space, pressure is coming from every direction. Customers are pinching pennies. Retailers want tighter, tailor-made assortments of products. Brands ...

The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices. By Ben Casselman On a Thursday in ...