How America Spends On Groceries

Planet Money charts how spending habits on groceries have changed over the past three decades: Part of this has to do with changes in consumption: Americans eat more processed foods and sweets than they did in the early 1980s, which likely accounts for why we’re spending more on those groceries. It is also tied up in pricing.

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