August 30, 2001 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
New price indexes for food stores
In its first year of publication, the Producer Price Index for grocery stores increased 4.7 percent. This increase from December 1999 to December 2000 mostly reflected the influence of higher margins among
supermarkets.
![Percent change in Producer Price Index for net output in selected food store industries, Dec. 1999-Dec. 2000](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120921214654im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2001/Aug/wk4/art04.gif)
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In addition to the index for grocery stores, price indexes for several other types of food stores have been introduced. Each of these price indexes rose in 2000. Producer prices rose 1 percent in retail bakeries, 5 percent in candy, nut, and confectionery stores, 5.2 percent in fruit and vegetable markets, 6.9
percent in meat and fish (seafood) markets, and 10 percent in miscellaneous food stores.
These data are a product of the BLS Producer
Price Index program. Miscellaneous food stores include establishments
such as coffee stores, health food stores, and vitamin food stores. Learn
more in "Producer prices in 2000: energy goods continue to
climb," by William F. Snyders, Monthly Labor Review, July
2001.
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