By ELISHA SAUERS Staff Writer
By ELISHA SAUERS Staff Writer
Capital Gazette Communications
Published
08/03/08
The grocery ads printed on the yellowing pages of a July 1968 edition of The Capital hark back to an age when the price of food was, for many Annapolitans, just an afterthought: Corn was 8 cents per ear, chicken went on sale for 39 cents per pound and a whole watermelon would set a shopper back just 89 cents.
Joshua McKerrow — The Capital
Nanny Jessica Owens loads ever-more expensive groceries into her trunk at the Forest Drive Safeway last week. In the cart is one of her charges, Jagen Son.
A trip earlier this week to a local grocery store revealed prices that are providing today's consumer a little food for thought.
An ear of corn: 60 cents.
A pound of chicken: $1.39.
A watermelon: $5.99.
And inflation isn't responsible for all of the increases. The government inflation...
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