One big reason grocery prices are up is because of the ethanol mandate that raises corn prices. In effect it's basically taking us say two gallons of fuel to make 1 gallon of corn fuel...that don't quite add up . so what i'm saying is it's costing us more energy to make corn fuel than what we are getting out of it and congress has a mandate on it. Hopefully our next president and congress will do something about that This isn't the only reason grocery prices are high but it is 1 major factor.