I generally remember the highs and the lows.

a quick search on prices from a hundred years ago...

According to statistics from the Census Bureau, typical prices for 1915 food include:

a loaf of bread: 7 cents
a dozen eggs: 34 cents
a quart of milk: 9 cents
a pound of steak: 26 cents


And also it went on to say that the average price of a home in 1915 was $5000
At the same rate that homes have increased....eggs should be about $30/doz. !!

I think I was born 100 years too late.

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Not me!

I can't imagine no air conditioning and gasp, no internet or antibiotics.

That is very weird pricing. There shouldn't be that big a local difference. At that price, you can ship the goods a little and get a lot more elsewhere.

The cost of food in relationship to people's income is very very low these days. Sure, 7 cents for a loaf of bread sound great now, but not if you make a buck a day.

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I don't see any of the people in those pics looking down at their cellphones?? How did they manage?

Eggs, bread, and milk used to be commodities, but thanks to marketing, an increased interest in healthy eating, and a lot of disposable income, they have become consumer products. I can buy eggs anywhere from $1.59 to $3.99 at the local grocery. The price depends on color, size, and lifestyle of the chickens. Same with milk. Whole, skim, 2%, flash pasteurized, slow pasteurized, organic, etc. There are probably two dozen different kinds of bread.
I would sure look at the fine print on a carton of 29 cent eggs.

If they're looking down they're looking for road apples.

Are these eggs from free range chickens that could wander around, and did they get along well with the other chickens?

I thought that wholesale milk prices were regulated?

I can't imagine that egg price covering inspection, packaging and shipping.

yes..and all the women's legs are covered up to the ground..all proper-like. :)

There are various programs to limit the minimum price farmers get for milk, but no actual price controls that I know of. The 2014 farm bill got rid of a really bad policy of having the government buy butter, cheese, and milk products from processors so they could supposedly pay more to farmers.

I would have enjoyed it right up until the movie camera was invented by Edison. After that, I'm sure everyone was wondering where the hell that crazy piano music was coming from.

Ok, I'm going to stop by our Spartan store after dropping my daughter off for gymnastics. Not sure I can get a pic but I will try to document the current prices.

Think they'll price match?:D

Spartan grade AA large huevos = fiddy cent a dozen here.

Cheapest milk--$1.99 gal

Eggs-1.09 per dozen

I looked at every option for eggs and milk and these were the lowest prices.

Loss leaders advertised heavily to get shopper in the door. Bet things like bacon or toilet tissue are higher than normal. Below is a current market pricing for these items...I sell food for a living and am very in tune of pricing

Below is wholesale pricing that is only given to repackers.

Egg pricing; cents per dozen..min purchase is tractor trailer load.
Extra-Large 109-118 112-115
Large 108-117 110-113
Medium 71-80 73-76

Milk
Class 1 Milk per 100 gallons $17.45..base on full tanker load.

^ That's what they do with pumpkins. They're selling at a loss in order to get customers in the door. The problem with that, is the producer isn't making any money either. Eventually they have to raise the prices or the farmer will have to cut them off.

Not quiet..the grocery chain is paying the above prices....the farmer is getting the same price he gets from all. The grocery chain is simply taking it in the shorts on that item but making it up elsewhere. just like thanksgiving, whole turkeys are being sold at Walmart and Kroger for .89# but their dressing and yams are twice the price of other stores to make up for the loss.

The yams did it! THE YAMS DID IT!

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