A lot of this is due to fuel prices.
With all due respect, it is due to your federal government's insistence that what was formerly food is now to be used as fuel. - even though there are plenty of sources of traditional fuel, and nuclear power available to take off the pressure.
Idiots.
And it is just going to get worse whith the minimum wage increase.
In more ways than one. Transportation costs are up and corn is being diverted to ethanol production.