Back in the thirties...

[miss_thenorth]

found this in our recent Princess Auto flyer:

Meats
minced veal....6 cents/lb
side bacon... 22 cents/lb
beef chuck roast...5 cents/lb
round shoulder beef roast...6c/lb
lambchops... 11c/lb
hamburg meat...4c/lb
whole dressed chicken...25c/lb
atlantic sole fish... 9c/lb

laundry soap, 9 bars...25 cents
Aylmer brand tomato or veg. soup...7 cents

flour $1.03 49lb bag
bread...6cents/lb
butter 21c/lb
eggs...10c/doz

Just FYI, thought it was pretty neat...

 

[hypnofrogstevie]

to bad things arnt like that now

 

[ilovemychickies]

I know. I wish that it was still the same.

 

[NS2A]

Neat.

Thing is, adjusted for inflation, wages etc. it's about the same now.

 

[seedcorn]

Quote:
Since that was depression time, imagine it is much worse than now. Spendable income on food is about 7% of total income. What makes grocery bills so high now is:
1) more processing
2) packaging
3) other items besides basic food in "grocery" bill. personal hygiene, diapers, etc.

Food is by far our cheapest resource even w/$9 wheat. Before had $.05 amount of wheat in bread. With wheat tripling, will now have $.15 worth of wheat in it. that's why bread is going to double in price--wheat prices...yeah right.

 

[patandchickens]

LOL, Miss_thenorth, I was reading exactly the same flier over breakfast this morning. Too funny!

And as seedcorn says, yes, most basic foodstuffs actually cost significantly LESS nowadays, and modern North Americans are on average spending a SMALLER fraction of income on food than pretty much anyone else on the planet at any time in history. Believe it or not.

Pat

 

[HenHappy]

I just saw that!! Pretty funny. My mom found an old newspaper once from 1907 and we couldn't get over the prices and the adverts in it!! So wild to look at.