Overall, food prices increased 2.9 percent from January 2025 to January 2026. Prices for food away from home increased 4.0 percent, including full service meals away from home, which rose 4.7 percent, and limited service meals, up 3.2 percent.
Prices for food at home were up 2.1 percent over the year. Nonalcoholic beverages (including coffee and juices) were up 4.5 percent. Prices of cereals and bakery products increased 3.1 percent. In contrast, consumer prices for dairy and related products decreased 0.3 percent.
Energy prices decreased 0.1 percent as prices for gasoline fell 7.5 percent. Prices were up 6.3 percent for electricity and 9.8 percent for natural gas.
Excluding food and energy, prices rose 2.5 percent. The shelter index increased 3.0 percent. Other notable increases over the last year included household furnishings and operations (3.9 percent) and personal care (5.4 percent).
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"I will lower prices on day one!"
- Creamsicle Caligula.
"The Iranians are the ones who have been killing for almost 50 years based on religion."
People have always used their mythical sky fairy to justify killing in the name of peace and love.
Why should today be any different?
People have always been chock full of hate and bigotry and have always used their all loving and all powerful Gawd to attack and kill people who did not believe the same as them.
We are barbarians who are constantly finding new ways to murder people without ever stopping to look at how we are more alike than different.
We won't stop until we destroy everything.