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August 2026

Food from vending machines and mobile vendors price index

The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures the change in what households pay for food from vending machines and mobile vendors. The figures below are for the month of August 2026.

253.957index level, August 2026
+3.79%change over 12 months
+1.25%change over 1 month

Last 24 months

MonthIndex (1982–84=100)Change from previous month
August 2024233.448+0.23%
September 2024233.902+0.19%
October 2024232.998-0.39%
November 2024233.141+0.06%
December 2024233.590+0.19%
January 2025236.168+1.10%
February 2025236.781+0.26%
March 2025241.579+2.03%
April 2025244.433+1.18%
May 2025244.333-0.04%
June 2025244.447+0.05%
July 2025244.554+0.04%
August 2025244.679+0.05%
September 2025248.523+1.57%
November 2025246.403not available
December 2025247.602+0.49%
January 2026247.770+0.07%
February 2026248.018+0.10%
March 2026249.274+0.51%
April 2026249.399+0.05%
May 2026250.404+0.40%
June 2026250.168-0.09%
July 2026250.823+0.26%
August 2026253.957+1.25%

What an index is

Each index is a price level for one kind of food, scaled so that the average for 1982–84 equals 100. Because the starting point is arbitrary, read an index by its change over time, not by comparing the level of one item against another.

A change of +3.79% over 12 months means the index stood at 244.679 in August 2025 and moved to 253.957 in August 2026. Where a month has no value, the table says not available; no figure here is estimated.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted. Data month: August 2026. Record: series CUUR0000SEFV04, item code SEFV04.