Since September 2025, the Alpaugh Family Economics Center has been tracking grocery prices across 41 stores and 65 items in the Greater Cincinnati metropolitan area. Some of that data has appeared in consumer news coverage on Local 12 News.
This monthly report presents our latest findings — offering the kind of localized price intelligence that disappeared when the Bureau of Labor Statistics discontinued its Cincinnati-specific Consumer Price Index in 2018.
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Key Finding: March 2026 Average grocery prices in Greater Cincinnati are down approximately 0.22% compared to our September 2025 baseline — the result of significant swings in both directions across our basket of 65 tracked items. |
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