Grocery Prices
Pantry & Bakery prices
U.S. city average · May 2026
Pantry & Bakery price snapshot
The pantry & bakery group covers bread, coffee, flour, rice, spaghetti & macaroni and sugar — 6 staples Basket Report prices each month at the U.S. city average from Bureau of Labor Statistics data. In May 2026 they ran from flour at $0.54 per pound up to coffee at $9.51 per pound, with 3 costing more than a month earlier and 3 costing less.
The biggest monthly increase came from sugar, up 2.8%. Going the other way, coffee fell 2.2%. Over the past year coffee stands out, up 19.9% from twelve months ago.
These are unadjusted BLS shelf averages — never estimates — and each one feeds the fixed-weight Grocery Basket Price Index. Bread carries the longest record, charted monthly back to January 1980; open any row for its history, or check the latest pantry & bakery move on the Receipt.
| Item | Unit | Price | MoM | YoY | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bread, white, pan | pound | $1.83 | ▼ 2.1% | ▼ 2.5% | |
| Coffee, 100%, ground roast | pound | $9.51 | ▼ 2.2% | ▲ 19.9% | |
| Flour, white, all purpose | pound | $0.54 | ▲ 0.2% | ▼ 3.2% | |
| Rice, white, long grain, uncooked | pound | $1.07 | ▼ 0.5% | ▲ 0.4% | |
| Spaghetti & macaroni | pound | $1.37 | ▲ 2.3% | ▲ 3.9% | |
| Sugar, white, all sizes | pound | $1.03 | ▲ 2.8% | ▼ 1.9% |
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI Average Price Data, series listed on each item page. Retrieved May 2026 via the BLS Public Data API. Download the full directory as CSV or JSON. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.