Grocery prices continue to surge across most categories. Here’s why.

Meals producers have struggled with shortages, bottlenecks, and transportation, climate and labor woes, all of which have precipitated meals costs to rise. The tip is just not in sight: Inflation on the wholesale degree climbed 8.3 % final month from August 2020, the Labor Department reported Friday, the most important annual achieve for the reason that division began calculating the quantity in 2010. These costs are handed on to shoppers: Meat, poultry, fish and eggs are up 5.9 % over final 12 months, and up 15.7 % from costs in July 2019, earlier than the pandemic.