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Bored Panda
Mariia Tkachenko

24 Side-By-Side Comparisons Of Food Prices In The 1980s And Now

If there's one thing everybody needs, it's food. And when we're browsing the aisles at a supermarket, an important criteria is price. In fact, according to Pew, six in 10 Americans say that when it comes to shopping, costs are a high priority in their food choices.

Bored Panda decided to see how food prices have changed in the last 40 or so years. So, we've compiled a comparison list of the most common groceries regarding how much they cost in the '80s and how much they cost now.

A little heads up: we present the prices in nominal terms and included the adjusted-to-inflation prices in the descriptions.

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