Question

Grocery prices in the United States have gone down

Answer 1

This claim is false. According to Food Price Outlook by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the CPI (Consumer Price Index) increased by 0.3% from July 2025 to August 2025. Recently since the summer of 2025, prices have gradually gone up instead of down. In 2026, it's expected to continue to grow, the hope of grocery prices going down is very slim. 

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

Answer 2

I found this claim to be untrue. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the consumer price index (CPI) for all food-at-home (grocery store food) increased by 2.7% from August 2024 to August 2025 (USDA). The price of restaurant food has also increased in the past year, by 3.9%. While the prices of certain items may have decreased, the overall majority of food prices are rising steadily. Food prices are rising faster than the rate of overall inflation. Since the pandemic in 2020, grocery prices have risen by almost 29% (NPR) and are expected to reach record highs in 2026, and increase by an additional 2.7%.

Answer 3

This claim is false. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average change over time in the prices for food increased by 0.4% from July 2025 to August 2025 and increased by 3.2% from August 2024 to August 2025. According to Trading Economics, with data from the US bureau of Labor Statistics, the peak U.S. Food price inflation was 11.4% in August 2022, declining to 2.9% in November of 2023 and staying under 3%, with its lowest in October 2024 at 2.1%, until March of 2025, hovering around 3% up to September 2025. The Federal Reserve Economic Data reports that between September 2024 and September 2025, the Consumer Price Index for Food went from 331.716 to 342.054, with 100 indicating the average CPI for food in 1982 to 1984. What this data is saying is that in the past year, groceries are getting more expensive, and the rate at which they are getting more expensive is increasing.

 U.S. Department of Agriculture- https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-findings 

Trading Economics- https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/food-inflation 

Federal Reserve Economic Data- https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIUFDSL 

Answer 4

After reading this claim, I found it to be false. Over the past few years, grocery prices in the United States have risen significantly. The original claim didn’t have any article or credible source to support it with evidence. Since Donald Trump’s election, he has repeatedly stated that he would lower grocery prices, yet there has been no action or policy to make that happen. This could be the reason for people making a claim like this one. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture food prices are expected to continue increasing at a historic rate in 2025. They reported that “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.” This data shows that grocery prices have not decreased in recent years but instead continue to rise steadily. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also reported that grocery prices have increased by approximately 30% over the past five years. Because this claim has no supporting evidence and is the opposite of reliable data, it’s clearly false. After doing more research, I can say that grocery prices have actually risen instead of declined.

Sources: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/19/nx-s1-5539547/grocery-prices-tariffs-food-inflation

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

Answer 5

This claim is false. Grocery prices in the United States have gone up since Trump took office. According to an article titled Fact Check: Grocery prices are up not "way down" as Donald Trump claimed by CNN, "average grocery prices rose 0.3% from August to September... that increase followed a 0.6% jump from July to August, which was the biggest month-to-month jump in three years." It goes on to say that Average grocery prices in September were about 2.7% higher than they were a year prior and about 1.4% higher than they were in January, the month Trump returned to office." 

Given this information it is not hard to conclude that the claim is false, however I will attach another article for further proof. 

I wanted to include an entirely statistical source, so here is the Consumer Price Index by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, last updated 09/25. Here is an excerpt I found that sums it up: 

"The index for food rose 0.2 percent in September, after rising 0.5 percent in August. The food at home index increased
0.3 percent over the month. Four of the six major grocery store food group indexes increased in September. The index for
other food at home rose 0.5 percent over the month after rising 0.1 percent in August. The cereals and bakery products
index and the nonalcoholic beverages index both increased 0.7 percent in September. The index for meats, poultry, fish,
and eggs rose 0.3 percent over the month following a 1.0-percent increase in August."

Food prices are increasing in the U.S, therefore, this claim is false.