Grocery Prices
Drink & Beverage prices
U.S. city average · Reporting month: September 2026
Drinks price snapshot
The drink & beverage group covers beer, orange juice, soda and wine — 4 products tracked at the U.S. city average from Bureau of Labor Statistics data. 3 of 4 items have September 2026 observations, ranging from soda at $0.59 per 12-ounce can to wine at $13.77 per liter. Package units differ, so this is a source-unit price range rather than a serving-cost comparison. Among September 2026 observations with a prior-month comparison, 1 rose, 2 fell and 0 were unchanged.
The September 2026 observation is unavailable for orange juice (APU0000713111); its latest published price is $4.82 per 16 ounces for July 2026. These older observations are excluded from September 2026 price ranges, change counts and mover rankings.
The biggest available September 2026 monthly increase came from wine, up 0.2%. The biggest available September 2026 monthly decline came from soda, down 2.0%. Among September 2026 observations, soda has the largest available absolute annual change: up 3.9% from a year earlier.
These are unadjusted BLS shelf averages. Basket members feed the fixed-weight Grocery Basket Price Index; tracked reference products are separate. Orange juice carries the longest record, charted monthly back to January 1980. Open any row for its history and series ID. The table's changes compare periods relative to each row's source month.
| Item | Unit | Price | MoM | YoY | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beer, malt beverages
Source: | 16 ounces | $1.88 | ▼ 0.2% | ▲ 2.2% | |
| Orange juice, frozen concentrate
Source: · September 2026 unavailable | 16 ounces | $4.82 | ▼ 1.2% | ▲ 3.8% | |
| Soda
Source: | 12-ounce can | $0.59 | ▼ 2.0% | ▲ 3.9% | |
| Wine, red and white table
Source: | liter | $13.77 | ▲ 0.2% | ▼ 1.4% |
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI Average Price Data, series listed on each item page. Retrieved October 14, 2026 via the BLS Public Data API. Download the full directory as CSV or JSON. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.