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Default Grocery Shopping c. 1910...

Puester wrote on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:27:20 GMT:

P> Gregory Morrow wrote:
??>> Neumann Grocery in Detroit, Michigan:
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??>> http://www.shorpy.com/node/2339
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P> I have a photo, circa 1920, of my dad and a co-worker at the
P> Wonder Market in New Bedford, MA. The store was smaller
P> than the one featured and there were fewer canned goods but
P> things like apples and potatoes in various barrels. The
P> most interesting things is the shelf prices. Most things
P> (canned soup, bars of soap) were around $.05. Cereals were
P> ~$.15 a package.

P> Interesting history lesson.

It certainly is tho' the CPI has increased by a factor of about
10 since then. The prices would make me suspect that factor was
really more like 20! Another thing that interests me is that the
smallest coin of those days was the penny as it is now. It's
like having no coins smaller than a dime but people seemed to
function well enough.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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