Food Price Inflation
A number of factors continue to negatively impact the food supply chain and contribute to elevated food prices, including the COVID-19 pandemic, severe weather events, labor shortages, and the war in Ukraine. FMI has research and resources that help explain the drivers of current food price inflation and support shoppers in navigating higher prices.
Food Price Inflation Blog Posts
FMI Food Price Inflation Resources
The Facts About Avian Flu And Its Impact on Egg Prices
While overall food inflation has stabilized, a few outliers—notably the price of eggs—continue to pose significant challenges driven in large part by the sustained outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (avian flu).
Grocery Shopper Snapshot - January 2025
This brief report provides an update on shoppers' expectations for the year ahead, evolving grocery habits and the role of technology in grocery shopping.
Grocery Shopper Snapshot: Hispanic Edition
This brief report provides insight into Hispanic grocery shopping habits, including attitudes, behaviors and purchase drivers.
The Food Retailing Industry Speaks 2024
The food industry is experiencing enormous change. The latest version of The Food Retailing Industry Speaks relays many shifting developments and describes how the industry has worked hard to make progress in the face of all this change.
U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2024: Finding Value
Beyond price and quality, shoppers define value to include relevance, convenience and experience.
Food Price Consistency at the Grocery Store
This fact sheet examines how the real prices of commodities like beef, pork and eggs have remained relatively flat over the last two decades, and ways the food industry is innovating to keep prices low for consumers.
Food Prices: The Value of Americans' Grocery Dollar Since 2001
This fact sheet outlines how despite inflationary increases and short-term price fluctuations, the real cost of groceries in America as a share of household income has remained remarkably consistent, and relatively flat, over the last two decades.
Fact Sheet: What is "Shrinkflation"?
As food manufacturers grapple with higher operating costs and increases in the price of inputs, they may need to adjust packaging sizes to keep prices as low as possible.
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Best practices, guidance documents, infographics, signage and more for the food industry on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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