Smopper Insights

Grocery prices around Pittsburgh. A blog.

I’m Ashley. I built Smopper and I write everything here. Usually a post starts because something in a store did not add up and I went home to check it against the data. If I cannot verify a number, I leave it out. About me

3 posts in Inflation. Show all

• August 11, 2026·Inflation

  Grocery Inflation Says 2.7%. Where You Shop Is Worth Fifteen Times That.

  Food-at-home prices rose 2.7% over the past year. Our own price data says the gap between two stores four miles apart is thirty to sixty percent. One of those numbers is in the news every month.

  

• March 11, 2026·Inflation

  Eggs, One Year After $6.23

  A year ago the average dozen hit an all-time high. It has come most of the way back down. Here is the full BLS series, what caused it, and the question about our own shelf prices I could not answer.

  

• December 29, 2025·Inflation

  The Real Cost of Food Inflation, and How Smart Shopping Can Help

  Food prices rose 24% between January 2020 and January 2023 and never came back down. Here is what that actually did to a weekly grocery bill, and the part of it you can still control.

  

Prices move and they are different four miles away, so check your own store before you count on anything I write. If a post has gone stale or looks wrong where you shop, tell me and I will fix it. You can also price your own list with the same data these posts come from.