STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Soaring grocery prices are reshaping how Staten Island families shop, with coffee and beef leading nationwide price hikes that are pushing household budgets to the breaking point.

Labor Department data reported by The Wall Street Journal shows coffee prices jumped 20.9% over the 12 months ending in August to $8.87 per pound — nearly $1 more than in May. Ground beef rose 12.8% to a record $6.32 per pound. Even the humble banana increased more than 6%. (They’re still 69 cents a pound at Gerardi’s in New Brighton, as of this writing — a small win for fruit lovers.)

According to The Wall Street Journal , overall inflation this year has been far below the surge of pandemic-fueled price increases in 2022, when it hit its highest level in four decades. However, the Aug

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