According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the cost of groceries has risen by 25.2 percent since February 2020. According to BLS data, you’d have to go back to the 1970s to see that kind of a jump in so short a time span. Not only is this higher than overall inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, but wages have lagged behind these costs, making the grocery bill not just larger in terms of dollars, but also in the chunk of people’s spending.