Question

Grocery prices in the United States have gone down

Answer 1

This claim appears to be false. According to the USDA (US Department of Agriculture), the consumer price index for all food increased by 0.4% in one months and increased by 3.2% in one year. More specifically, it states that the CPI for grocery specific foods have raised by 0.4% in one month and increased by 2.7% in one year. These finding are all based on the Food Price Outlook data files. These data files are done through the Department of Labor which releases monthly updates on the CPI. It analyzes price changes over time which then leads to a structured prediction for the change in CPI percentages. Due to this being a government backed verification process that is held to national standards, it is a reliable and unbiased source. In 2025 overall prices of food are expected to increase by 3%, in addition to that, in 2026 prices of food are expected to increase by 2.7%. So while there might be outlying products that have decreased in cost, food as a whole in the U.S has significantly increased and it forecasting to continue to increase in price. 

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-findings 

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook

Answer 2

This claim is misleading and contrary to grocery price data. The first suspicious element is that there is no source to back up your claim. My first source to prove that grocery prices have been up is from The Wall Street Journal, an article titled "Grocery prices keep rising. Frustrated Consumers are Trying to Adapt". The article claims that beef prices are at a record high, and coffee has cost consumers more than $1 per pound, an abnormally high price. Another source, the USDA claims that food prices rose faster than overall inflation in the last year (https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-findings). It also claims that food prices in August 2025 were 3.2% higher than August 2024. NPR claims that grocery prices have gone up 29% since February 2020 (https://www.npr.org/2025/09/19/nx-s1-5539547/grocery-prices-tariffs-food-inflation). The first and third sources are well known, established news sources which are not to be trusted all the time, but when many sources align to say the same message, it becomes more legitimate. The second source was data from the Consumer Price Index.

Answer 3

This claim is incorrect, various sources state that grocery prices have been rising since 2020. 

According to USA Today, grocery prices have risen due to chain supply disruptions from COVID-19 starting with eggs. At a climbing rate of 0.6%, in the same article it's stated grocery prices are "the fastest monthly rate change for groceries since October of 2022..." https://www.usatoday.com/story/grocery/2025/09/23/why-grocery-prices-going-up/86296793007/ Trump campaigned on lowering costs of groceries during reelection, but items like bacon have raised by $.33 as seen on NBC news. This directly proves the claim of grocery prices to be decreasing, wrong. Orange juice and beef are "at least 10% more expensive than they were a year ago." This article also included a graph on 6 food items with raised prices. https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/grocery-price-tracker-inflation-trends-eggs-bread-trump-administration-rcna191508 Nearly 71% of goods in the US are facing Trumps tariffs. They are planning on increasing for nearly 80 countries. In the year 2024 $221 billion of food products was imported, $163 billion of that initial cost faced tariffs. Effecting nearly 75% of food imports into the US, according to Tax Foundation https://taxfoundation.org/blog/trump-tariffs-food-prices/ 

These sources prove this claim to be wrong. 

Answer 4

This is false! Although prices have decreased from the 2022 spike (COVID) prices are actively raising. According to the US Department of Agriculture, "The food-at-home (grocery store or supermarket food purchases) CPI increased 0.4 percent from July 2025 to August 2025 and was 2.7 percent higher than in August 2024."  Although the Covid spike could have contributed to the high numbers, reports are showing that prices are raising. I visited CBS new's site and checked where thy got there data. They said they got it from the Bereau of Labor statistic. I went to there website to make sue the data matched and it did. CBS said, "In August, the Consumer Price Index — a key measure of inflation across the U.S. economy — rose by 0.2%. That brought the annual inflation rate to 2.9%, compared with 2.7% in July".  Overall, this claim is false.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/price-tracker/
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-findings

https://www.bls.gov/regions/mid-atlantic/data/averageretailfoodandenergyprices_usandwest_table.htm