US Shoppers Buy Less Bread in Bad News for Farmers

Cookie and cracker unit sales were down 3.4 percent from the previous year and grocery-aisle bread sales fell two percent.

Breads are seen in a Kroger supermarket on October 14, 2022, in Atlanta, Georgia. Economic prospects are becoming "more pessimistic" in the United States on growing worries of weaker demand, the Federal Reserve said in a report October 19, 2022, citing heightened inflation and rising interest rates. Photo by Elijah Nouvelage / AFP

By Michael Hirtzer From Bloomberg News

America’s wheat crop is making a comeback. Too bad U.S. grocery shoppers want to buy less food made with it.