The weekly grocery cost continues to sting Kiwis.

Food prices dropped 0.5% from June to July, although they're still up 9.6% from a year ago.

Meat, poultry, and fish increased 9.3% annually.

Fruit and veggies is up 6.2 points, although July's costs dipped 4.1% from June.

Vegetables NZ Chair, John Murphy, told Heather du Plessis-Allan that he thinks we are at the tail end of Cyclone Gabrielle's destruction, which wreaked havoc on growers.

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