About GrocerySlash
A U.S. grocery price tracker built from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' own published data.
All prices on GrocerySlash come from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Average Price Data (U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted) and the Consumer Price Index for food at home. These are national averages, not the price at any particular store.
Data fetched 2026-09-25T19:19:37Z. Source: BLS average price data.
Earlier versions of this site listed coupons and store deals that were not drawn from any real source; they were removed. Nothing on GrocerySlash today is generated, sampled or estimated: every figure is a value BLS published, and every page names the series it came from.
What is on the site
- All tracked prices — 64 items, each with its own page.
- Food at home index — the CPI-U series CUUR0000SAF11.
Each item page shows the latest price and its month, the price 12 months earlier with the dollar and percent change, the last 24 monthly values, the BLS series id, and a link to that series on the BLS website. Where the series has no value for the earlier month, the page says the change is not available.
What the numbers mean
BLS collects the prices of a fixed basket of goods every month and publishes an average for U.S. cities. The result is a national average, so it will not match any single store's shelf price. The food-at-home index is an index number rather than a dollar amount; it shows how the cost of food eaten at home has moved over time.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Average Price Data and CPI-U food at home, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted.