Finance
The $100 Shopping Cart: How a Half-Century Transformed What Americans Eat, Buy, and Can Afford
A hundred dollars at the grocery store in 1975 filled a cart in ways that would genuinely shock a modern shopper. But inflation is only part of the story. What Americans buy, how it's made, and what's quietly become unaffordable tells a far more complicated story about how the country eats — and what that says about who we've become.
