Grocery Prices Up Six Percent from a Year Ago

(Undated) – If you’ve done grocery shopping recently, you don’t need me to tell you food prices are up. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index, prices at the grocery store went up point-one percent from April to May. Menu items went up half a percent at the same time. Grocery prices are nearly six percent more expensive than this time last year, and menu prices rose over eight percent in the past year.