{"id":665919,"date":"2026-05-13T04:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/665919\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:39:09","slug":"grocery-prices-and-forecasts-econbrowser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/665919\/","title":{"rendered":"Grocery Prices (and Forecasts) | Econbrowser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of the April 2026 CPI release:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cpi_foodathomepix21.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cpi_foodathomepix21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"561\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure 1: CPI \u2013 food at home (black), January 2025 ERS forecast (inverted green triangle), January 2026 forecast (light blue square), April 2026 forecast (red triangle), all on log scale. Source: BLS, ERS, and author\u2019s calculations.<\/p>\n<p>Note that 2025 groceries inflation outstripped the January 2025 forecast, with the price index ending up 0.9 ppts higher than originally forecasted.<\/p>\n<p>Some individual commodities since January 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/coffeesteakfruitveg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/coffeesteakfruitveg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"561\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure 2: CPI \u2013 fruit and vegetables (green, left log scale), coffee (brown, right log scale), steak (red, right log scale), tomatoes (pink, log right scale), all 2025M01=1.0, on log scale). Source: BLS via FRED, and author\u2019s calculations.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tThis entry was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2026\/05\/grocery-prices-and-forecasts\" title=\"4:27 pm\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 12, 2026<\/a> by <a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/author\/menzie_chinn\" title=\"View all posts by Menzie Chinn\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Menzie Chinn<\/a>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As of the April 2026 CPI release: Figure 1: CPI \u2013 food at home (black), January 2025 ERS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-665919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}