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Today's report is a collection of price observations taken throughout the month of July (there's no "survey week" for the CPI like there is for the big "First Friday" jobs report).

I presume they just average the price observations taken through the month for each item.

Someone upthread reported a big increase in meat prices at the end of July. But since they (presumably) average such observations taken throughout the month of July, it would not have a big impact on the average. (In other words, don't think of the July report as being an estimate of prices at the end of July).

As for individual observations, I was impressed by this link someone gave us upthread:

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/cost-of-groceries-by-state.html

The big take-away for me was the wide variation in food inflation by state and locality. So one person's food inflation experience is often quite different from another's (leaving aside perceptual biases, like focusing on one or two items with big increases).

But note that, even though it says "Updated 10 July 2025" at the very top, most of what follows is as of November 2024 and some graphs end in October 2023. So while I think this link is good for generally showing geographic variations, it seems to be all pre-Krasnov as far as data.