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Supermarket register tapes from 1976

mtnester
11 years ago

Seven years into retirement, I finally got around to cleaning out a file cabinet in the attic yesterday, and I found an envelope full of register tapes from the supermarket. 1976 must have been the first year they printed an itemized receipt; some of the tapes from early in the year were just a list of unidentified numbers. Looking through them is like going down Memory Lane! We don't eat beef or lamb any more, I changed from Pepsi to root beer, and our baby, who was just starting on solids then, is now 36! But I still use many of the same products, just different brands or different forms of the same thing.

Here are some sample prices (I can't believe so many items were under a dollar):

Round roast $2.19

Sirloin steak 2.85

XL grnd beef 1.43

Lamb chops 4.05

Chkn breasts 1.85

Apple juice .45

BB light tuna .50

OS crnbry sc .25

Spaghetti .40

Ragu sauce .69

Sugar 5 lb .89

Brown sugar .45

Townhse crkr .85

Maxim coffee 3.39

Cheerios .63

Wheat brd .34

Parsly flk .25

Salt .17

Pepsi 16 oz 1.49

Gerber cereal .41

Gerber str carrot .20

Gerber str meat .39

Rubber pants 1.09

1.26 lb banana .21

12 oranges 1.38

Cantaloupe .59

1.13 lb onions .33

Pascal celery .49

Green pepper .20

1.97 lb peachs .77

Skim milk qt .43

A large eggs .76

Am cheese .83

Butter lb 1.31

Promise margarine .77

Bryr van fdg 1.99

Froz peas .67

Froz spinach .23

Bounty towel .59

Scot facials .55

Kitty litter 10 lb .79

Cascade 1.15

Ajax cleansr .39

This was fun, a snapshot of the past.

Sue

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