Rob Wile is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist covering breaking business stories for NBCNews.com.
Grocery price growth, once the scourge of the post-pandemic inflation surge, has finally settled down. On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that food-at-home prices increased 1.1% year-on-year — the ninth-straight month of sub-2% increases. For the average consumer, the new price levels can take years to adjust to, economists say. Between January 2021 and December 2022, grocery prices shot up more than 20%. As of July, consumers pay about $0.
A host of factors have been blamed for the price surge, including busted supply chains, the war in Ukraine, higher wages for front-line and food-production workers, and excessive profit-taking by grocery companies — dubbed 'greedflation,' though some economists dispute how significant this was. Yet supply chains have now been largely restored, and the impact from the war in Ukraine has mostly receded.
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