(CNN) — Newly released inflation figures show that President Donald Trump was wrong when he repeatedly claimed this month that grocery prices  are “down” or “way down.”

They were up, again, last month. And they have increased since the start of his presidency.

Average grocery prices rose 0.3% from August to September, according to  Consumer Price Index figures  released Friday. That increase followed a 0.6% jump from July to August, which was the biggest month-to-month jump  in three years .

Average grocery prices in September were about 2.7% higher than they were a year prior and about 1.4% higher than they were in January, the month Trump returned to office.

The grocery price increases have been broad, spanning the vast majority of product categories tracked by the federal B

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