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Cream cheese prices in the Northeast
8 oz package · USDA-reported store count 1,924 · week of October 19, 2026
What this number means: the average advertised sale price in grocery-store weekly ads across the Northeast, not the price at any one store, and not the everyday shelf price. Cream cheese, 8 oz package, per 8 oz pack; ads for the week of October 19, 2026.
Definition and sources
- How it's averaged: each advertised price is weighted by the number of stores USDA reports running it. That store count is summed across qualifying ads, so a store running two qualifying ads may count twice.
- USDA label: “CREAM CHEESE”.
- Data week: ads for the week of October 19, 2026, published by USDA on October 23, 2026. USDA publishes these weekly, on Fridays; this site checks for new reports every 30 minutes.
- Coverage: USDA-reported store count 1,924. History since 2014.
- BLS comparison: we don’t show a closely matching BLS average-price series for this item.
- Sources: USDA AMS “Weekly Grocery Store Dairy Feature Activity” (report 2995). How we check the data.
The last 52 weeks
Northeast vs US since 2014
Other regions this week
Midwest $2.18 · Southwest $2.34 · South central $2.62 · Northwest $2.79 · Southeast $2.93 · Alaska $3.01
Ad prices are advertised sale prices, averaged across stores by how many stores USDA reports running each price. Store counts aren't independent observations: many stores can share one chain's ad. All groceries in the Northeast · Download weekly prices (CSV) · Report a correction.