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When it comes to grocery prices, what goes up hardly ever goes down.

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. First, let's acknowledge that we all carry our own personal consumer price index with us at all times. We experience the prices we ourselves pay. But we can also learn from diving into the nationwide numbers. The fresh consumer price index came out yesterday. It was up more than expected one slice.

The price of food to use at home was up six-tenths of one percent from just July to August.

Marketplace's Carla Javier reports.

If you're wondering if tariffs are to blame, they're not the main driver of higher grocery prices.

That's according to Bobby Gibbs, who's a retail consultant

at Oliver Wyman. He says other input costs are the culprits.

Including weather and other production impacts. Some of that comes from labor shortages and

labor availability, which is a potentially kind of ongoing cost impact to them.

Gibbs says small profit margins for grocery stores

mean they can't absorb higher costs.

And that leaves consumers in a tough spot,

says Charlotte Ambrosek in the Department

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