The Concord Tribune presents a very interesting comparison of retail food prices today and this time a year ago in the form of an advertisement taken from the window of a grocery firm in Kannapolis. This advertisement shows, on the one hand, that 100 pounds of sugar this time last year was $30, whereas today this same 100 pounds of sugar costs $8, and if a purchaser is disposed to spend today the $30 which were required for a bag of sugar last year, he will get in addition to the guard, 98 pounds of good flour, one peck of ground coffee, 16 pounds of rice, 10 packaged corn flakes, a bushel of Iris potatoes, 12 cans of corn, 12 cans of pork and beans, 7 cans of sauerkraut, 6 packages of washing powder, 6 cakes of soap, 8 pounds of lard, 10 pounds of syrup, 8 quarts of white beans, one broom, and a half bushel of meal—all of these items in the aggregate being worth only $30.
Verily, it would appear that the cost of living is not as high as it is “cussed out” to be.
From The Charlotte News editorial page, Monday, June 27, 1921
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