US average price for a pound of sliced bacon: $6.58/lb as of 2026-07-01, -7.5% vs a year ago, and -4.0% vs five years ago. Source: BLS — the public shelf-price survey behind the official CPI, updated monthly (the gasoline page updates daily from AAA).
This page charts the full history back to 2017, including the record high of $7.61/lb in 2022-10, with regional splits where the BLS publishes them and the upstream supply chain — farm-gate prices and futures markets — that moves the shelf price with a lag of weeks to months. Grocery staples like this are the most visceral inflation there is: nobody checks the CPI shelter index at the register, but everyone notices when a pound of sliced bacon jumps. The Build-Your-Cart tool combines these staples into your personal basket, the farm-to-shelf page shows where the retail dollar goes, and the full price history is downloadable as JSON from the open data directory.
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