# A loaf is how much!? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 2, 2010, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376 "2010-09-02T12:44:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NadaHappyCamper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@NadaHappyCamper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NadaHappyCamper)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376/1 "2010-09-02T12:44:59Z")
When do you suppose it will take a “wheelbarrow” full of money to purchase a loaf of bread?:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376/2 "2010-09-02T12:48:23Z")
Seeing as I’m paying 99 cents a loaf, awhile. Unless America’s wheat crops go up in flame like Russia’s did. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376/3 "2010-09-02T14:19:09Z")
I bake my own bread so it costs me about 60 cents a loaf. I know at our local grocery store I can find bread from 99 cents to $5 a loaf so it depends on which kind of bread you buy I suppose. I think people are much more likely to learn to bake bread at home than to pay much more than $7 or $8 per loaf so I don’t think anyone will ever have to haul their wheelbarrow of savings to the store. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376/4 "2010-09-02T15:00:47Z")
What are you talking about? Bread remains cheap. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376/5 "2010-09-02T15:08:03Z")
I believe the OP is referencing the [hyperinflation](http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/media/weimar_hyperinflation2.gif) incident in [Weimar Republic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic) (Germany) in 1923. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376/6 "2010-09-02T15:32:30Z")
> [@Renee](#): > > What are you talking about? Bread remains cheap. Not in San Fran. Sure, you can buy cheap bread, maybe $1.59, but for good wheat or whole-grain bread, four bucks plus is standard, even at the Safeway. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376/7 "2010-09-02T15:42:36Z")
_Good_ bread is not exactly cheap in small towns either, not if 99 cents is a reference point. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376/8 "2010-09-02T18:09:10Z")
Here (small Southern town) it is 99 cents for store brand white bread, but Wonder was on sale for $0.99 this week. If you want something like Nature’s Own it can go between $2 - $3. If you want something more exotic than that, you’ll need to move to a larger town. ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376/9 "2010-09-02T18:49:03Z")
Maybe OP is visiting Zimbabwe? Or did those guys get their superinflation fixed already? ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376/10 "2010-09-02T18:55:20Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > > [@Renee](#): > > > > What are you talking about? Bread remains cheap. > > Not in San Fran. Sure, you can buy cheap bread, maybe $1.59, but for good wheat or whole-grain bread, four bucks plus is standard, even at the Safeway. > > Joe This. I like to get 100% whole wheat bread and once in a blue moon, I can pick it up for $2.50 a loaf, but it’s usually $4, sometimes $5. Yes, I could get a loaf of Wonderbread’s knock off brand for $1.50, but that’s hardly something anybody should be stuffing in their maw. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376/11 "2010-09-02T19:00:07Z")
You could try bringing a small wheelbarrow full of pennies to the store, and see if they’ll take that. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376/12 "2010-09-02T19:36:31Z")
If they can’t get any bread just eat some Hostess cup cakes.\* \*this moment in history brought to you by Hostess Cup Cakes. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376/13 "2010-09-02T23:28:10Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I believe the OP is referencing the [hyperinflation](http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/media/weimar_hyperinflation2.gif) incident in [Weimar Republic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic) (Germany) in 1923. That’s what came to mind for me - I recall the wheelbarrow/bread stories from History at school. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376/14 "2010-09-03T02:06:48Z")
I reckon that debit cards are highly unlikely to grow in size to the point that a wheelbarrow is necessary to move one, so I vote never. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376/15 "2010-09-03T03:28:01Z")
> [@NadaHappyCamper](#): > > When do you suppose it will take a “wheelbarrow” full of money to purchase a loaf of bread?:eek: About the same time Obama institutes the death panels. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376/16 "2010-09-03T05:17:51Z")
But assuming most people don’t own wheelbarrows, how would you get the money to the store to buy one so that you could go get your bread? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-loaf-is-how-much/552376/17 "2010-09-03T06:03:22Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > But assuming most people don’t own wheelbarrows, how would you get the money to the store to buy one so that you could go get your bread? And how many wheelbarrows of money would it take to buy a wheelbarrow?