Grocery prices will rise by an average of 5.5% this year, the highest inflation rate at the supermarket since 2008, said the Agriculture Department on Monday.
The forecast was an abrupt 2 percentage point increase from last month and was spurred by three months of rapid rises in the prices of many foods.
Prices for meat, the biggest item on the grocery list, were forecast to...
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