About the data
Daily US food prices at shipping points, wholesale markets and supermarkets, from USDA and BLS reports.
How it works
1. Monitor
Kadoa checks USDA and BLS for new price reports every day.
2. Extract
It pulls every price quote out of each report.
3. Clean
Quotes for the same product, market and package join one price series.
4. Publish
Charts and CSV downloads update with each new report.
Sources and method
Sources
- USDA Market NewsShipping point, wholesale and retail ad prices
- BLS average pricesMonthly store prices for staple foods
- BLS Consumer Price IndexAll consumer prices, for the inflation line
- MarkonCrop updates in Market news
Limits
BLS store prices are monthly and arrive weeks after the month ends.
USDA stops quoting a product when its growing region is out of season. Charts leave those gaps open.
Extraction can make mistakes. Check the original USDA report before relying on a price.
Prices
A wholesale price is USDA's low and high quote for one product in one market, in dollars per package, as reported.
Retail prices are sale prices from supermarket weekly ads, averaged across stores. They are not shelf prices.
Changes
A change compares the middle of the quoted range with the report closest to 4 or 52 weeks earlier. Red means up, green means down.
The overview calls wholesale prices mostly rising when at least 55% of the foods that moved went up, and mostly falling at 45% or less.
Store prices and inflation
Staples show the change in BLS average US city prices since August 2019. On store price charts, the dashed line is the first price grown with all consumer prices (CPI-U). Prices are not adjusted for inflation.
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