Grocery Run

This track was born from a real headline: Grocery price increases of 8-12% driven by fuel surcharges in March 2026. The lyrics weave in verified details — Grocery prices up 8 to 12 percent in March 2026; Average family grocery bill rose from $270/week to $300/week; Fuel surcharges on delivery trucks passed to consumers. Majik delivers the report through pop, letting the data hit as hard as the beat. Lines like "Walked into the store on a Tuesday afternoon," anchor the track in specifics that generic coverage misses. The mood — catchy, informative, concerned — reflects the emotional reality behind the numbers. Every Majik's Studio news track exists to make you feel the story, not just read it.

[verse 1] Walked into the store on a Tuesday afternoon, March twenty-six, the prices hit the moon. Gallon of milk was three-eighty-nine last month, now it is four-thirty-five, that is twelve percent in front. Eggs went from two-sixty to three-ten a dozen, that is nineteen percent, tell your aunts and cousins. Fuel surcharges on every single truck, forty thousand pounds of food and the diesel bill is stuck. Diesel hit four-fifty-five a gallon on the road, every mile costs more to carry every load. Those costs get passed to you at the register line, eight to twelve percent on everything, that is the sign. [chorus] Grocery run, grocery run, eight to twelve percent and we have just begun. Grocery run, grocery run, three hundred dollars weekly, used to be two-seventy-one. Grocery run, grocery run, gas goes up and food goes up for everyone. Grocery run, grocery run, check the receipt, look what the war has done. [verse 2] Average family spent two-seventy a week before, now it is three hundred even, maybe more. That is thirty dollars extra every single week, one-fifty-six a month for the food you seek. Eighteen-seventy-two more per year per household, thirteen percent of families food-insecure, we are told. That is seventeen million homes that skip a meal, bread went from three-forty-nine to three-ninety, that is real. Produce up nine percent, apples, lettuce, greens, meat up eleven percent, chicken, pork, and beans. Cereal boxes shrunk two ounces but the price stayed high, shrinkflation plus inflation, double reasons why. [chorus] Grocery run, grocery run, eight to twelve percent and we have just begun. Grocery run, grocery run, three hundred dollars weekly, used to be two-seventy-one. Grocery run, grocery run, gas goes up and food goes up for everyone. Grocery run, grocery run, check the receipt, look what the war has done. [bridge] From the oil field to the refinery, from the truck stop to the grocery, every penny on a barrel of crude ends up on the price of your food. Ninety dollars a barrel, four-fifty diesel, twelve percent on groceries, feeds the evil. Seventeen million families cannot afford to eat, one-fifty-six a month pulled from under their feet. [chorus] Grocery run, grocery run, eight to twelve percent and we have just begun. Grocery run, grocery run, three hundred dollars weekly, used to be two-seventy-one. Grocery run, grocery run, gas goes up and food goes up for everyone. Grocery run, grocery run, check the receipt, look what the war has done. [outro] Grocery run. Check your receipt. Eight to twelve percent. Grocery run.