Some Arizona shoppers face sticker shock with rising grocery prices
A W. P. Carey supply chain expert weighs in on how foods like ground beef, sirloin steak, and coffee are seeing double-digit increases.
Isys Morrow
In this article published Jan. 14, 2026, on Arizona's Family:
Food prices are driven by supply challenges that are not temporary. So there are still certain aftereffects of climate change, such as floods in California. It's causing labor costs to rise. Farm losses are constraining the supply that should have reached grocery stores, as products are dying on the farm.
— Hitendra Chaturvedi, NASPO Department of Supply Chain Management professor of practice
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