RCBJ is introducing its new “Price Tracker” enabling readers to see the effects on prices for various commodities from January 2024 through February 2025. The charts will be updated every month as data becomes available.
In February, grocery prices climbed slightly compared with the previous month, driven in large part by a nationwide egg shortage caused by an outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu, which has pushed prices up 10 percent over the past four weeks. Egg prices are up almost 100 percent from last year. February represents the largest monthly increase in egg prices since June 2015, accounting for roughly two-thirds of the total increase in grocery prices since December. An investigation into price gouging on egg prices is underway by state and federal governments.
Beef prices climbed 4.5% over the previous month, likely also related to bird flu infecting cattle and other seasonal adjustments.
Electricity prices remain stubbornly high. Tomato prices fell.
How the impact of tariffs or threatened tariffs will affect prices in March remains a mystery.
The categories we are tracking are:
- Whole Milk
- Grade A Large Eggs
- Navel Oranges
- Tomatoes, Field Grown
- Ground Chuck, 100% Beef
- Chicken, Fresh, Whole
- Electricity Per KWH
- Gasoline, Regular Unleaded
- Unemployment Rate
Scroll down to view the data.
