Grocery Prices Will Never Go Back Down. Here's Why.

Inflation cooled off. Your grocery receipt didn't. Grocery prices are up about 31% since early 2020, and in the last 60 years they've only dropped over a full year twice. So why don't they ever come back down? Rockets and feathers, a beef shortage that will take years to fix, shrinkflation that never reverses, and the one thing that actually makes prices fall. 0:00 Why your receipt still hurts 0:42 Cooling is not cheaper 1:36 Rockets and feathers 3:00 Some of it is real 4:15 The sneaky one 4:53 Is the feather finally falling? 5:38 What actually works 6:18 The one sentence version What's the one grocery item that makes you the most mad right now? Tell me in the comments. Sources BLS Consumer Price Index, food at home (Feb 2020 to Sep 2026) USDA Economic Research Service, Food Price Outlook Federal Trade Commission, Feeding America in a Time of Crisis (March 2024) American Farm Bureau Federation, cattle inventory analysis Michigan State, Stanford, Kansas State and University of Michigan economists as quoted in news coverage Investors Observer, shrinkflation analysis PLMA, store brand sales report Music: On The Flip, A Stroll, Stats (YouTube Audio Library) Stock footage: Pexels