Rising prices at the grocery store

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published cost estimates for April 2026. If you’ve bought anything over the past month, you’ve likely noticed a rise. For the Washington Post, Rachel Lerman and Federica Cocco charted the rising cost of groceries this year, before and after the war with Iran.

Prices were already going up because of tariffs (remember those?), but the war is pushing costs up harder. Soon, we will pay for goods with cherry tomatoes.