America’s Biggest Supermarket Warns Surge in Grocery Price 

America’s biggest Supermarket Kroger said that the Grocery prices would rise by another 3% before the end of the year. The Supermarket generated $132 billion in sales last year. The company said inflation is running longer than management previously anticipated, altering their expectations for prices.

The higher authorities say that they predict prices will rise 2 to 3% over the second half of this year. This prediction came after the White House statistics last week unveiled that a surge in meat prices is credible for half of the price increase for food at home since December 2020.The beef prices have risen by 14%, pork by 12 percent, and poultry by 6.6 percent since December. CFO Gary Millerchip said that the America biggest Supermarket Kroger would pass along higher costs to the customer where it makes sense to do so.

Management at Albertsons Companies which operates 21 retail brands including Albertsons, Jewel-Osco, and Safeway – reported an estimated revenue of 70 billion dollars in 2020 and expressed similar concerns that inflation would run hotter in the second half of this year. They also said that they would have to raise prices on some of their products.

The prices of grocery items would add more pressure on consumers as they are already dealing with the biggest annual increase in consumer prices since August 2008. The all-items Consumer Price Index, a measure of economy-wide inflation, has increased by 0.5 percent from June 2021 to July 2021 before seasonal adjustment, up 5.4% from July 2020.The food-away-from-home CPI increased 0.8 percent in July 2021 and was 4.6 percent higher than July 2020.