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. 

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Resource: Supply Chain Infographics

This series of infographics explains how key ingredients in an American classic – the peanut butter and jelly sandwich – are impacted by current disruptions to raw materials production, packaging, transportation, and labor. These infographics are formatted to be easily shared on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to help educate your customers on why they might be seeing limited supplies of these popular products.

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FMI Food Price Inflation Resources

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Grocery Shopper Snapshot: Hispanic Edition

This brief report provides insight into Hispanic grocery shopping habits, including attitudes, behaviors and purchase drivers.
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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.
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U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2024: Finding Value

Beyond price and quality, shoppers define value to include relevance, convenience and experience.
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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.
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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.
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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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Summer Barbecue Breakdown

This infographic can be shared with shoppers and highlights common ingredients people consume during summer celebrations such as burgers, chips, and watermelon, and the reasons underpinning the price increases for these goods.
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Receipts from the Pandemic: Grocery Store Investments Amid COVID-19 and the Resulting Economics of an Essential Industry

This analysis quantifies the operational costs of actions food retailers took amid the COVID-19 pandemic.