UNITED STATES – Consumers across the country are reshaping their grocery shopping routines as they face the biggest jump in food prices in about 50 years. Many shoppers now plan their trips around discounts, checking supermarket apps, scanning weekly circulars and clipping coupons before they leave home and again once they arrive at the store. Faced with higher prices on everyday staples, they adjust their lists in real time, choosing different brands or products when the items they usually buy cost more than they expect. PHOENIX – At Apral Jack’s home, dinner increasingly depends on what is on sale. The 50-year-old shopper searches her local supermarket’s app for deals and then studies the weekly circular for coupons she might have missed. If the price of a product she regularly buys climbs too high, she looks for it at another store or swaps it out entirely. When the apples she prefers became more expensive at her usual market, she decided to stop purchasing them there, illustrating how rising grocery costs are prompting people to rethink even their most routine food choices.

Prepared by Christopher Adams and reviewed by editorial team.