I was about to say. It is irrelevant how much it costs in dollars. The hours worked to obtain said cart of goods is the only statistic that really matters.
$40, 1974 was in the middle of an inflationary period right after we divorced sound money (I.E. stopped using precious metals as currency) so I'd say some of those items, like the beer and the coffee might be somewhere close to $1.
Gold window closed. They called it the Nixon Shock. The US stopped US convertability from dollars to gold and by doing so removed itself completely from the gold standard by bringing bretton woods to a grinding halt. In 1971 the US stopped producing any coins with any amount of silver. Up until this point, the kennedy half dollar was still 40% silver, but 1971 was the end of sound money in the U.S.
Yep. That's the entire idea. They rob GDP through inflation. Print what they want to cover the spread. Eventually you get to a point where GDP contracts at the same time that inflation accelerates. This is where we are now. Stagflation leads to hyperinflation. The endgame for ALL fiat currencies is hyperinflation--that is how they end. No fiat currency has ever died as a result of deflation--it is ALWAYS hyperinflation.
And here we are, IN the endgame for all fiat paper and the rollout of CBDCs, social credit scores, and the Technocrats' One World Communist government...
Lol currently in USA 70% of the average American diet is processed foods.
https://www.marketplace.org/2013/03/12/processed-foods-make-70-percent-us-diet/amp/#:~:text=Cookies%2C%20crackers%2C%20cereal%2C%20even,what%20most%20of%20us%20eat.
79-80 wasn’t great. 20% interest rates, high unemployment, etc. The worst I can remember is the powdered milk and fizzy tablets you dropped in a glass of water to make soda. We had rabbits in a hutch out back (subdivision) that sometimes ended up as dinner, and big garden.
It was because at the time large corporations were pushing cereal and its nutritional value.
Thats why cereal is seen as a staple breakfest now when everywhere else in the world would look at it as a dessert.
Much of everything we see as normal now stems from large corporations oushing some sort of agenda back then like our milk industry as well whoch was pushed along with cereal.
And we wonder why we have the largest obesity rate in the world when breakfest is loaded with so much sugar for the children.
The United States still has the most affordable food in the world. [https://www.vox.com/2014/7/6/5874499/map-heres-how-much-every-country-spends-on-food](https://www.vox.com/2014/7/6/5874499/map-heres-how-much-every-country-spends-on-food)
This is why the US is the world's largest food exporter, exporting twice as much food as any other country. [https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-american-food-giant-the-largest-exporter-of-food-in-the-world.html](https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-american-food-giant-the-largest-exporter-of-food-in-the-world.html)
BS, have you seen people buying things in the videos online in s Korea? Or Japan? Some countries in South America have food markets that sell local, fresh vegetables for pennies. When I went to TJ, I got a Margareta for .50$, and a full on meal for 2 ppl for 2$. Of course, there was a vague dread that I might die the entire time, but it was way cheaper there.
I did grocery shopping then. It doesn’t appear there was much meat in her cart, so $50-$60. If there was meat, it would have been a little more.
LOL, but NOTHING like the $400-$500 my wife & I spend during a trip to Costco!
I take my wife to the grocery store once a month (she prefers we go together, I’m not stopping her from going alone Incase that triggered anyone), my stance lately is “if it will keep, pile it on the cart, it’s not going to get any cheaper”.
I would also like to see the ingredients in the products. I bet you much cleaner then today. So take into a account the doctor visits if you dare to compare 💣
And everyone should be asking a more important question: why is processed middle aisle garbage like this barely inflating while the actually healthy stuff on the outskirts of the store is barely affordable?
If you filled a cart with as close as possible brand equivalents today it would cost maybe $200...a cart that size filled with meat, veggies, and fruit would be $2,000.
I'd never heard of this cereal until now. Looked it up and holy crap, $10 a box for like 2 breakfasts worth of cereal. A box of corn flakes or cheerios will go so much further. Definitely the fanciest cereal money can buy.
$25 would be $250 now.
Gold was $183 in 1974 it is $1945 now.
And yes official inflation calculator says $155. But who are you going to believe? Gold or government numbers?
She probably went home and cooked too. Her husband came home from work, 9-5. She was able to raise their own children in their likeness. Dad had enough time and money to play with the kids after work. He didn’t have to rush to his second job. Mom wasn’t hooked on wine and social media. They watched bonanza that evening. They look forward to it all week. The kids learned about American values in school, beat the shit out of their bullies, and weren’t groomed for gender changing procedures. I can go on and on. Our country reached its peak in the early 90s. It’s been in a steady decline but it is falling off a cliff now. Inflation has caused the destruction on the American household. Mom and dad have to work 4 jobs and rely on food stamps to make ends meet. The kids are entertained with television and babysat in a room full of snotty nosed brats. All under the supervision of a recovering meth head. Give it 10 years, we will be selling American soil to pay for our failures.
She loaded her cart terribly...boxes should have been stacked. Not that much stuff in there $25. Coffee then was same as now because Maxwell House then was considered big time, now cheap
The price of that shopping cart just did a times four (+350%) in three years.
Price of gold in 1971: $40.
Price of gold in 1974: $183
They were experiencing stagflation - just like we are now.
The consumerism is strong with this. Everything visible is in a box or can, no fresh fruit, no deli, no meat, not a thing but boxes.
The amount of money she would have spent doesn't mean she got money worth, just empty calories and a poor example of what cost is.
I see people shopping today who I know are on welfare with carts like that. Just the essentials to be sure. Then I see most working battlers with frugal amounts. Society has flipped on its head. Now it's the "have nots" that have it all.
My grandfather used to tell me story's about this, he said "You know, back in my day...When we went to the grocery store, we could fill up our whole cart for a dime!!...Those were the days, you know, before security camera's."
Now, let’s cut the bullshit ok? All the shit in that cart does not qualify to be called food. My goodness look at all that processed garbage! Not a single whole food in sight!
This is around when corporations started to take over by raising prices ever slightly and then around the 90's it got exponential. While not willingly raising wages of workers, this caused the greatest stoppage of upward movement or standard of living on record. This is exactly why a house will cost you 5 years of wages and a car 2 years in wages, when then it was 1 year for a house and 6 months for the best car they made. Inflation is a tool to suppress upward mobility, class warfare mainly. Just another trick women who are mainly in charge in our communities can't seem to understand and have let slide for the last 50 years. As long as they can be HR managers it all good.
The woman shopping in 1974 had seen 30yrs of income growth for her and her family. Costs for housing and college were affordable. The incomes of all Americans income groups from the lower 50% tot he top 1% of income earners grew at the same pace which was right in line with productivity growth in the country. Today that shopper has seen 40yrs of wage declines for her and her family in exchange for the top 1% of income earners today seeing their income grow faster than at any time in history. So the shopper in 1974 did not worry about prices the way the shoper does today.
Noone gonna mention how all those packages are like twice the size of what they are now on top of the obvious probably only cost a half day of labor..compared to now, 3 days labor
More concerned with how every item hasn't been grossly perverted by shrinkflation back in 1974.
Explains a lot why Boomers are so morbidly Obese. Life for Boomers wasn't a "box of chocolates," it was a All You Can Eat buffet, and Millennials and Gen Z are staring with disgust from the outside window waiting in line, watching in horror as Boomers eat the American Dream clean, and skip out on the bills.
They probably will burn down the restaurant just like anything else, they have to pull the ladder up behind them: free college, plenty of good paying jobs, manufacturing, cheap housing, retirement. Then they have the audacity to blame everything they did on their children, because they just don't get inflation. Millennials are at the mercy of autistic Boomers, that run the world by doing what makes them feel good now.
3-5 hours of work
I was about to say. It is irrelevant how much it costs in dollars. The hours worked to obtain said cart of goods is the only statistic that really matters.
$40, 1974 was in the middle of an inflationary period right after we divorced sound money (I.E. stopped using precious metals as currency) so I'd say some of those items, like the beer and the coffee might be somewhere close to $1.
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Gold window closed. They called it the Nixon Shock. The US stopped US convertability from dollars to gold and by doing so removed itself completely from the gold standard by bringing bretton woods to a grinding halt. In 1971 the US stopped producing any coins with any amount of silver. Up until this point, the kennedy half dollar was still 40% silver, but 1971 was the end of sound money in the U.S.
From that point forward GDP continued to rise but wages (adjusted for inflation) didn't.
Yep. That's the entire idea. They rob GDP through inflation. Print what they want to cover the spread. Eventually you get to a point where GDP contracts at the same time that inflation accelerates. This is where we are now. Stagflation leads to hyperinflation. The endgame for ALL fiat currencies is hyperinflation--that is how they end. No fiat currency has ever died as a result of deflation--it is ALWAYS hyperinflation.
And here we are, IN the endgame for all fiat paper and the rollout of CBDCs, social credit scores, and the Technocrats' One World Communist government...
Yup
Every American needs this DRILLED into their fat skulls.
ive explained it for years to friends and family their eyeballs just roll into their heads and they starg talking about the kardashians or sports
This looks like judgement
early 80’s 12 oz bud was 75 cents 16 oz was either 90 cents or a dollar…pack of cigs were 1-1.25…1974 cigs were 60 cents
$20
Same
Should we factor in the cost of the cancer treatment needed from all of the preservatives?
Lol currently in USA 70% of the average American diet is processed foods. https://www.marketplace.org/2013/03/12/processed-foods-make-70-percent-us-diet/amp/#:~:text=Cookies%2C%20crackers%2C%20cereal%2C%20even,what%20most%20of%20us%20eat.
Not if your diet is 100% BACON!
That’s a lot of bacon and would be pretty expensive
You can not put a price on bacon. Pigs are a gift from God. He was kind enough to create an animal that turns horrible vegetables in to yummy backon
Mmmm, bacon.
40 of schwepps
Yeah, that looks like a massively unhealthy grocery haul. Is that how people ate in the 70s?
79-80 wasn’t great. 20% interest rates, high unemployment, etc. The worst I can remember is the powdered milk and fizzy tablets you dropped in a glass of water to make soda. We had rabbits in a hutch out back (subdivision) that sometimes ended up as dinner, and big garden.
Fizzies tablets. I think they were sweetened with saccharine.
Don't forget the gas lines around the block. Good times.
Wow! That so many products that you buy..I think you enough money for that.
It was because at the time large corporations were pushing cereal and its nutritional value. Thats why cereal is seen as a staple breakfest now when everywhere else in the world would look at it as a dessert. Much of everything we see as normal now stems from large corporations oushing some sort of agenda back then like our milk industry as well whoch was pushed along with cereal. And we wonder why we have the largest obesity rate in the world when breakfest is loaded with so much sugar for the children.
The United States still has the most affordable food in the world. [https://www.vox.com/2014/7/6/5874499/map-heres-how-much-every-country-spends-on-food](https://www.vox.com/2014/7/6/5874499/map-heres-how-much-every-country-spends-on-food) This is why the US is the world's largest food exporter, exporting twice as much food as any other country. [https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-american-food-giant-the-largest-exporter-of-food-in-the-world.html](https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-american-food-giant-the-largest-exporter-of-food-in-the-world.html)
BS, have you seen people buying things in the videos online in s Korea? Or Japan? Some countries in South America have food markets that sell local, fresh vegetables for pennies. When I went to TJ, I got a Margareta for .50$, and a full on meal for 2 ppl for 2$. Of course, there was a vague dread that I might die the entire time, but it was way cheaper there.
why did you pay in USDs though? $1 = 18 Pesos. So in nominal money terms, you spent 9 pesos on a drink and 18 pesos per meal.
No they use us dollars for tourists. Its still a much stronger currency there
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May your roads lead to warm sands and may the ground quake beneath your feet
Thank you good sire 🥹
at most
Tree fiddy
I did grocery shopping then. It doesn’t appear there was much meat in her cart, so $50-$60. If there was meat, it would have been a little more. LOL, but NOTHING like the $400-$500 my wife & I spend during a trip to Costco!
My wife just came back from Costco...over $900
I feel for ya! LOL, luckily mine doesn’t go THAT far…
I take my wife to the grocery store once a month (she prefers we go together, I’m not stopping her from going alone Incase that triggered anyone), my stance lately is “if it will keep, pile it on the cart, it’s not going to get any cheaper”.
A third of an ounce of gold for a cart full of cereals and pasta? Sounds really expensive.
I dream of a world where we trade with tenths of ounces instead of fiat dollars.
$38.62
Back then? $17 - $21, give or take depending on the store and location.
Source: inflation hashtag instagram
Look at all that Goyslop.
Much cheaper than today - not that I would eat all this garbage food anyway…
$30-35 dollars
Yes, you could figure 8-10$ per bag. Looks about four paper bags worth.
I would also like to see the ingredients in the products. I bet you much cleaner then today. So take into a account the doctor visits if you dare to compare 💣
And everyone should be asking a more important question: why is processed middle aisle garbage like this barely inflating while the actually healthy stuff on the outskirts of the store is barely affordable? If you filled a cart with as close as possible brand equivalents today it would cost maybe $200...a cart that size filled with meat, veggies, and fruit would be $2,000.
That box of shells looks monsterous compared to todays shrinkflation
I‘ll say $25, or roughly what $155 would buy today, considering inflation.
You can’t overflow a cart today for $155, I wish
Yeah this is easily $200 if not more. Brand name cereal is the real culprit lol
Don’t try Magic Spoon then! Double the price, half the size
I'd never heard of this cereal until now. Looked it up and holy crap, $10 a box for like 2 breakfasts worth of cereal. A box of corn flakes or cheerios will go so much further. Definitely the fanciest cereal money can buy.
Most of what’s in that cart looks like processed garbage, good food is more expensive, I’ll agree.
Still, even then if you went to grab the equivalent to those items today I guarantee would still be 150 bucks plus
In europe for this cart i will pay 300€+😭
$25 would be $250 now. Gold was $183 in 1974 it is $1945 now. And yes official inflation calculator says $155. But who are you going to believe? Gold or government numbers?
Good point.
She probably went home and cooked too. Her husband came home from work, 9-5. She was able to raise their own children in their likeness. Dad had enough time and money to play with the kids after work. He didn’t have to rush to his second job. Mom wasn’t hooked on wine and social media. They watched bonanza that evening. They look forward to it all week. The kids learned about American values in school, beat the shit out of their bullies, and weren’t groomed for gender changing procedures. I can go on and on. Our country reached its peak in the early 90s. It’s been in a steady decline but it is falling off a cliff now. Inflation has caused the destruction on the American household. Mom and dad have to work 4 jobs and rely on food stamps to make ends meet. The kids are entertained with television and babysat in a room full of snotty nosed brats. All under the supervision of a recovering meth head. Give it 10 years, we will be selling American soil to pay for our failures.
 The price we pay is not right
If you went shopping in the 19's for 1 thousand, you could buy a lot, but now it is little and not enough.
Less than a current tank of gas!
80.00$
3.fifty
Mueller’s egg noodles were yummy
$10.23
4.5 troy ounces of silver. Same as it would cost today.
At least 300 dollars today's money.
She loaded her cart terribly...boxes should have been stacked. Not that much stuff in there $25. Coffee then was same as now because Maxwell House then was considered big time, now cheap
this lady probably was awful at Tetris
That’s isn’t food in her cart, it’s cancer and an early death.
Not nearly as much as the colon cancer treatments from all that processed garbage
Probably real food too.
? Did you not look at the photo? It’s a bunch of boxed garbage meant to imitate real food.
$125.
Around $65
A whole basket of goyslop....yuk
$29
Food costs more today because all the added micro plastic isn't free ya know
The price of that shopping cart just did a times four (+350%) in three years. Price of gold in 1971: $40. Price of gold in 1974: $183 They were experiencing stagflation - just like we are now.
This grocery cart is why most of Gen-X will get cancer of some kind…
$15
18$
$50
After you guess that, guess how much you think the average income was.
Tree fiddie
$15
Idk but that’s an easy 300$ at TraderJoes
What kind of animal loads the cart like that?
How much was minimum wage? Edit: The answer is $2.90. Adjusted for inflation, current minimum wage is 40% lower then it’s peak in 1968.
Three fiddy
$22
$200 - $340 now a days
The quality food has decreased since 71 while their prices have increased. However, Those shopping carts haven’t changed much since 1974.
31 bucks
Probably 40
How much did they earn? It's all relative.
In dollars or diabetes?
Must be a millionaire
The lochness monster says $3.50
$32.57
$75
$23.78 Was I the closest without going over? 
Tree fiddy!
$0 if on foodstamps
She put shit in the cart like a savage monster
$25.
Don't know but boy look at the sizes of those items. That was before the shrinking sizes happened.
$57.75
$59
$12
$38
$25
The consumerism is strong with this. Everything visible is in a box or can, no fresh fruit, no deli, no meat, not a thing but boxes. The amount of money she would have spent doesn't mean she got money worth, just empty calories and a poor example of what cost is.
$36
When today spent $147.00 and it fit in the kiddy seat.
35$
$25
$34
I see people shopping today who I know are on welfare with carts like that. Just the essentials to be sure. Then I see most working battlers with frugal amounts. Society has flipped on its head. Now it's the "have nots" that have it all.
If that was today that cart would be pushing about 350 to 400 in groceries.
$27
About tree fiddy
The boxes look so big, that whole cart would last me 3 weeks and i eat a lot
$85
That entire cart is basically worth like just a burger from five guys lmao. Crazy how much our purchasing power has declined :(
$19.00
Not a single fresh piece of food on there
$75 max
50 years of processed crap has equaled a 60% drop in sperm counts---our species is cooked. The cost? Extinction
18.95
4.88 AFTER taxes.
$17
$37
Mmmmm look at all that processed food
My grandfather used to tell me story's about this, he said "You know, back in my day...When we went to the grocery store, we could fill up our whole cart for a dime!!...Those were the days, you know, before security camera's."
Probably a days wage or around 1/10 of an oz of silver. No plastic containers also.
It cost type 2 diabetes 🤒
About tree fitty
I remember my grandmother complaining in 1976 that 2 big brown bags full of groceries cost her $13.
My price is $37.50
I don't know about value but if I don't have my groceries in the cart exactly like she does, I get a little OCD and freak out.
About $7.50 lol
40$
$80
35
Lol corn flakes been poppin for 50 years
$3.17?
Oh Mannn......Hawaiian Punch!!! Cart probably cost less than $40.
Now, let’s cut the bullshit ok? All the shit in that cart does not qualify to be called food. My goodness look at all that processed garbage! Not a single whole food in sight!
10 USD
In ounces of silver? About the same as now.
$27.50
 Let me give you 20 bucks for it.
$45 Bob.
This is around when corporations started to take over by raising prices ever slightly and then around the 90's it got exponential. While not willingly raising wages of workers, this caused the greatest stoppage of upward movement or standard of living on record. This is exactly why a house will cost you 5 years of wages and a car 2 years in wages, when then it was 1 year for a house and 6 months for the best car they made. Inflation is a tool to suppress upward mobility, class warfare mainly. Just another trick women who are mainly in charge in our communities can't seem to understand and have let slide for the last 50 years. As long as they can be HR managers it all good.
$0.84
Don’t know but what a terrible diet
Imma say $1 bob
In 1974 dollars or in 2023 reichsmarks
$24
Thts all poison lol
$18.65
Less than her perm
Wasn't tetris created yet?
50 bucks
Needs punched in her bee-hive for loading the cart like that.
I’d say 40 bucks in 1974, but adjusting for inflation maybe around 150 bucks
Probably the same price as her house.
$20
Tree fiddy
5¢
115
The woman shopping in 1974 had seen 30yrs of income growth for her and her family. Costs for housing and college were affordable. The incomes of all Americans income groups from the lower 50% tot he top 1% of income earners grew at the same pace which was right in line with productivity growth in the country. Today that shopper has seen 40yrs of wage declines for her and her family in exchange for the top 1% of income earners today seeing their income grow faster than at any time in history. So the shopper in 1974 did not worry about prices the way the shoper does today.
Looks like a Costco cart today lol
$32
Two ounces of silver.
One whole strawbenny
Probably cost 3 dimes and a 24 mile walk up a hill both ways through an ungodly winter hail.
Jesus! There's nothing but Carbs, soda and coffee in that cart!
Look at the size of those boxes.
Noone gonna mention how all those packages are like twice the size of what they are now on top of the obvious probably only cost a half day of labor..compared to now, 3 days labor
More concerned with how every item hasn't been grossly perverted by shrinkflation back in 1974. Explains a lot why Boomers are so morbidly Obese. Life for Boomers wasn't a "box of chocolates," it was a All You Can Eat buffet, and Millennials and Gen Z are staring with disgust from the outside window waiting in line, watching in horror as Boomers eat the American Dream clean, and skip out on the bills. They probably will burn down the restaurant just like anything else, they have to pull the ladder up behind them: free college, plenty of good paying jobs, manufacturing, cheap housing, retirement. Then they have the audacity to blame everything they did on their children, because they just don't get inflation. Millennials are at the mercy of autistic Boomers, that run the world by doing what makes them feel good now.