(09-22-2023, 07:22 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote:(09-22-2023, 05:20 AM)classicdrogn Wrote: I don't know where you were shopping in 1998, 'cause that looks like a $200 load of groceries to me by the standard of when I was making that kind of grocery run twice a month around that time.
Yeah, I was thinking much the same thing -- while the general concept is more or less accurate the illustration is exaggerated. The 1998 cart looks like about $100 worth of shopping for Peg and me at the time. It might have been $20 in 1965, but not 1998, and I wouldn't swear to that.
As for "2023", yeah, $20 won't fill a cart, but it won't be empty, either. I can think of four or five of our favorite dinners off the top of my head that I can get all the ingredients for for approximately $20. Without needing tiny portions or oddball ingredients like bulk-bought bulgar wheat.
I can think of quite a few items that you can get for $20, myself, from meal components to frozen dinners, not to mention lots of that classic college student staple, ramen. I'd say a $20 cart today should look somewhere between the 2005 and 2014 ones shown, depending on the items selected. (side note, I work at a grocery store...
Meanwhiel...no comment on how Andrew Jackson is coming right for us as time goes on? :-)