{"id":849811,"date":"2026-09-16T13:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849811\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T13:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:38:32","slug":"interactive-heres-why-grocery-prices-may-not-be-coming-down-anytime-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849811\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive: Here&#8217;s why grocery prices may not be coming down anytime soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite official inflation data showing grocery prices nearly flat \u2014 up just 2.2% over the past year \u2014 Americans aren&#8217;t feeling any relief. Research by Motley Fool Money found the average household spent $677 a month on groceries in 2025, a 31% jump from 2019 and roughly $160 more per month than before the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Some retailers like Walmart cut prices on hundreds of items this summer, but experts warn those reductions may not last, partly funded by one-time tariff refunds. The USDA forecasts grocery prices could rise another 2% by 2027, though outcomes could range from a 5% drop to a 10% increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite official inflation data showing grocery prices nearly flat \u2014 up just 2.2% over the past year \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-849811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}