CLEVELAND, Ohio — Six months after cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer began tracking the prices of 100 everyday household items, Northeast Ohio shoppers are seeing costs inch higher on many staples, from coffee and laundry detergent to laptops and lumber.
The project, launched in April after President Donald Trump announced a new round of tariffs, set baseline prices at Walmart, Giant Eagle, Lowe’s and Amazon.
Cleveland.com compiled a list of 100 common household items to monitor , with help from readers who subscribe to Chris Quinn’s From the Editor text message. Readers suggestions on what prices we should keep tabs on were wide-ranging.
We pledged to revisit those items over time to see how trade policies and inflation filter down to the checkout line.
The first major update shows