consumers are feeling right now. prices soaring a whopping 7% just last month from the year before. our brian todd is working this story for us. brian, americans haven't seen a jump in prices like this since 1982. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. they haven't seen an overall jump in prices like this over a one-year period in almost 40 years. from grocery stores like this one to your neighborhood gas station, just about every american is feeling the pinch tonight. at this grocery store here in d.c., customers getting crushed at the cash register. >> eggs, milk, mainly the basic things that you normally get. even paper products. they've gone up. >> vegetables, i used to make those for dinner, just put them in the oven. i noticed they've gone up maybe a dollar or two. just a single, double serving. so it is noticeable. >> reporter: noticeable to seemingly every american consumer tonight. today the labor department reported consumer prices were up