Inflation Striking Middle-Class Consumers With Higher Prices For Groceries

A shopper pushes a child in a cart while browsing big-screen televisions on display in the electronics section of a Costco warehouse in Lone Tree, Colo., on March 29, 2022. David Zalubowski/AP Photo

Middle-class consumers in the United States have begun to overtake low-income shoppers as the financial group most affected by rising grocery prices for the first time since the pandemic, according to a May 31 report by Numerator, a consumer data analytical service.

The Numerator report utilized purchase data gathered by its mobile-receipt app, “Receipt Hog.”