The U.S. grocery slowdown is becoming harder to ignore.
Shoppers are buying fewer items than a year ago, and grocery sales are declining as weakening unit sales are now outweighing rising prices. That is according to new analysis from Bain & Company using NielsenIQ grocery data shared exclusively with CNBC.
Grocery units, which refer to individual items or products sold, fell 1.8% in June from a year earlier, a sharp reversal from the 0.1% year-over-year growth recorded in June 2025. While prices continue to rise about 2% to 3% year-over-year, that inflation cushion for the industry is no longer enough to keep overall sales growing.
Food is famously a luxury good so it makes sense people would pull back in order to spend their money on necessities like bombs to drop on foreign elementary schools and shit
Don’t forget to save for some children’s hospital bombs too
I haven’t eaten for three weeks so I can donate more bombs as a patriotic act. I’m doing my part!
Tapping into America’s strategic fat reserves.
I’m trying to limit my avocado toasts to just 3 times a week.
Whoa, moneybags over here just casually mentioning they eat a whole avocado and also get three square pieces of bread every week.
and your gold flakes on you filet mignon.
I use mine to buy necessities like gasoline to make molotov cocktails out of the empty bottles I collect from the trash.
Be careful not to accidentally drop any styrofoam from old food and beverage containers into those molotovs, lest they become all sticky and napalm-y!
and foreign AID to a country who doesnt need money for thier own healthcare.