Grocery Costs & Food Prices

Feeding a family shouldn't require sacrificing everything else.

Groceries are a basic household expense, and changes in food prices are felt quickly by Nebraska families.

Even relatively small increases across everyday items can add up over the course of a month. For households already operating on a tight budget, higher grocery costs can mean making difficult choices about what to buy, what bills to pay, or what expenses to postpone.

Food prices are influenced by many factors, including supply chains, transportation, labor costs, energy prices, weather, global markets, and federal trade and economic policy.

Nebraska For Us works to help explain these factors and connect national economic policies to the prices Nebraskans see when they shop for their families.