MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Good news for your wallet: overall, grocery prices have fallen since reaching a high earlier this spring.
We calculated the totals based on the average prices for 10 weeks of shopping in the last five months, and for the week of June 11, our total, $108.29, was the second-lowest since we launched our Price Tracker back in February, when the total was two bucks cheaper.
We’ve been tracking prices for more than 20 grocery items at Kroger, Walmart and Target. This includes everything from milk, eggs, bread and cereal to peanut butter, jelly, sandwich meat and cheese, plus produce, meat, snacks and beverages.
So what’s cheaper right now? The average price of eggs was $2.90 in mid June. That’s 35-cents cheaper than in late May, $1.32 lower than when we first started tracking in February and nearly three dollars cheaper than when eggs were at their high in March. ($2.85 lower than $5.75) We found our lowest price at Walmart where a dozen cost $2.72.
Several other items fell in mid-June compared to the end of May including bread, Cheerios, and Folger’s coffee. In fact, the 25.9-ounce coffee canister we track was only $8.99 at Target. It typically runs anywhere from 12 to 14 bucks.
The overwhelming majority of our grocery items, when looking at averages, remained steady and didn’t change at all in price, when comparing to the two weeks prior, so more good news for your grocery budget.
A few items increased slightly including vanilla ice cream, Bud Light and Diet Coke (Comparing June 11 to May 26). Those last two are even higher if we compare prices to early February.
And speaking of, while the price of ground beef has been roughly the same the past several weeks we’ve tracked, it’s now 80-cents higher than early February — averaging $6.74 a pound in mid-June compared to it being under six bucks a pound at the beginning of the year.
So let’s talk about a few ways you can save no matter what, especially if you’re shopping or building your grocery list online.
How about letting AI and technology do the work for you.

Consider browser extensions, websites and apps that automatically track prices for you and even offer cash back. For example, Honey is a browser extension that will show you when an item is cheaper elsewhere. Capital One Shopping automatically applies coupon codes. And you’ve heard me mention camel camel camel, the free Amazon price tracker.
One of my colleagues uses Chat GPT to build her grocery list, meal plan and find the cheapest prices.