A look at rising grocery prices in the Boston area 13 Articles

by Thomas Alford

Just as we consumers are reeling from the one, two punch of rising gasoline prices, and lower home values, we have been delivered another blow to the midsection, from the higher cost of groceries. After nearly 20 years of ...read more

by Blonde G

A burgeoning ethanol industry in the United States have helped corn prices to peak. This is our breadbasket to many grocery products. Product necessities such as cereals, eggs, bread, meat and chicken have been hit hard. ...read more

by Ray Fauteux

Food prices in Boston are increasing at an astounding rate. Just in the past month alone, food prices have risen more quickly than any time in the past five years. It's not unusual for customers to find that prices on s...read more

by Timothy D Heard

A look at rising grocery prices in the Boston area The retail prices of groceries in the Boston area is on the rise; and there is no end in sight. It is not only the retailers making these decisions, the whole food ...read more

by Ohara Laury

A trip to down the supermarket aisles is leaving deep holes in customers' pockets. Just ask Allison Achtmeyer, a regular shopper at Deluca's Market in Boston. She has witnessed the hikes in food prices but accepts it a...read more

by Kate Johns

Grocery store prices are so high in the Boston area that people are being forced to make crucial decisions, such as, "Do we eat this week or do we pay bills?" It doesn't help that gas prices are skyrocketing and that Bost...read more

by Kimberly Bunch

The Inflation of Boston Food Prices The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that a dozen eggs in 2006 were $1.45 and now in 2008 they are $2.18, Red Delicious Apples by the pound in 2006 were at 0.96 cents a pound, in 2...read more

by Christianna Garrett-Martin

- A LOOK AT RISING GROCERY PRICES IN THE BOSTON AREA- -AN URGENT ISSUE- This is a very important and emotive issue in Boston today. With the massive incline in energy costs, compounded with wages at a standstill, ...read more

by Amee Trivedi

What happens when the prices of the regular grocery items keep increasing and every day when you get up an switch on the TV or read the news paper you get to know that the grocery prices are all ready to drill holes in yo...read more

by Jay Ruckart

Boston's rising cost of groceries........... Boston shoppers have not seen grocery prices like this since the early 1990's. With an annual rate hike of 7.5 percent, it makes the core inflation rate of 2.6 percent ...read more

by Bella Cooper

Grocery costs are rising nationwide at a faster rate than we've seen for the past 18 years. According to the Bureau of Labor statistics, within the last year food prices as a whole have increased about 3%. More sta...read more

by Alice Mcmahan

FOOD COSTS HIT BOSTONIAN WALLETS Bostonians, as most Americans, are adjusting already tight budgets to deal with food price increases. According to the Department of Labor, food costs have largely remained stable, with...read more

by James McMann

You now have a decision to make: do you buy a gallon of gasoline or two green peppers? Green Peppers retail for $2.00 each at our local Stop and Shop and like gasoline, vegetables, meats and packaged foods are continuing ...read more