Meet the Americans learning to go without after the biggest grocery inflation in 50 years
Lately, at Apral Jack’s house, it’s whatever is on sale.Recommended Video Jack, 50, scouts an app for deals at her local supermarket before she buys groceries. When she reaches the store, she looks in the weekly circular for coupons she might have missed. If shelf prices look too high, she tries to find lower prices someplace else.
- ▪Lately, at Apral Jack’s house, it’s whatever is on sale.Recommended Video Jack, 50, scouts an app for deals at her local supermarket before she buys groceries.
- ▪When she reaches the store, she looks in the weekly circular for coupons she might have missed.
- ▪If shelf prices look too high, she tries to find lower prices someplace else.
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| Original publisher | Fortune |
| Canonical URL | https://fortune.com/2026/07/25/grocery-inflation-families-texas-san-francisco-hawaii/ |
| Publication time | Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:54:52 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-25T14:22:18.438Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-25T14:22:18.438Z |
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What’s for dinner? Lately, at Apral Jack’s house, it’s whatever is on sale.Recommended Video Jack, 50, scouts an app for deals at her local supermarket before she buys groceries. When she reaches the store, she looks in the weekly circular for coupons she might have missed. If shelf prices look too high, she tries to find lower prices someplace else. “The apples went up here, the ones I eat, so now I’m not going to get them here,” Jack said as she pushed a cart into a Stop & Shop near her home in Lexington, Massachusetts. Couponing, comparison shopping and cutting back on favorite foods are new habits for her and millions of other Americans as they absorb the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century.
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