$7 DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 190T Marsmallows 31 Southern Yans Seed Pineapple 33 20 Swift's Frozen Foods BUY 'EM BY THE BAG FULL! POTATOES Late Loon Steaks 5 SPINACH Sandwich Steaks Beef Steaks 57 CARROTS CABBAGE MARINE BUSSETS FANCY QUALITY FRESH CORN 328 PASCAL CELERY 17 More Reminders For Your Shopping List 39 11311 1.12. Macaroni 2.41. Mrs. WERBELL. Let us talk about milk. We went into three different shops. Mine was 26 cents a quart. Each paid a different price. Mr. ANFUSO. Mrs. Pryor paid 27? Mrs. PRYOR. Yes. Mr. ANFUSO. In what neighborhood? Mrs. PRYOR. I shopped in upper-in the middle of Manhattan. Mr. ANFUSO. Middle? Mrs. PRYOR. Yes. Mr. ANFUSO. West Side or East Side? Mrs. PRYOR. 150th Street, West Side, and low income. Mr. ANFUSO. I know the neighborhood, independent low income. You paid how much? Mrs. PRYOR. Twenty-seven. Mr. ANFUSO. Mrs. Werbell? Mrs. WERBELL. Twenty-six cents. Mr. ANFUSO. Where-what neighborhood? Mrs. WERBELL. Lower East Side. Mr. ANFUSO. Lower East Side? Mrs. WERBELL. Yes. Mr. JENNINGS. What is the difference in price of milk bought in the supermarket and delivered at home? Mrs. WERBELL. I do not know. Mrs. MILLER. It is 29 cents delivered. Mr. JENNINGS. What would it cost in the neighborhood market? Mrs. MILLER. I do not know. Mr. JENNINGS. Twenty-six or 27. I mean, there is a difference. Mrs. WERBELL. It was 26 in the market. Three cents difference in the market. Mr. JENNINGS. Is that the average margin, 3 cents difference? Mrs. PERSINGER. For home delivery over the supermarket price. Mr. JENNINGS. Let us take an average in the same community— what is the average differential in price? Mrs. WERBELL. There isn't. In the same community you have the same price in the stores. Mr. FISHER. There is 2 cents' difference between the store and home delivery price. Generally speaking, you will find an odd penny difference in the stores. Mr. ANFUSO. You have been holding up two beautiful apples. I think I want to say something about them. Mrs. PERSINGER. This is my activity in consumers' education because I feel that the Government can legislate, and still won't know how to do our shopping. Unless we take an interest in what items are luxury items, what items are prevalent and plentiful, and the season of the year, and why it is important not to buy a lot of these things such as pineapple, the honeydew melon, which are not the sort of thing we would feed a family on the lower East Side which really requires a high level of nutrition for little money. As to these apples which I bought, naturally, I wanted the very best-looking apple I could find. The McIntosh which we have here is from the middle Sixties, on the East Side. They are very poor and bruised and spoiled. These are New York State Delicious. I had the pleasure of paying 9 cents apiece for them. This seems fine, but I just wonder how much a farmer got in the season of the year when apples are plentiful, for these apples. Mr. ANFUSO. Mr. Ogren, how about that? Mr. OGREN. What variety? Mrs. PERSINGER. These are New York State Delicious. Mr. ANFUSO. Incidentally, this is an open house here. If anybody else has answers, please raise your hand. Mr. KESSNER. Did I understand her to say 15 cents a pound? Mr. KESSNER. On Friday afternoon on my way home I stopped off at the supermarket and I bought 3 pounds of very fine McIntosh for 19 cents-3 pounds for 19 cents. In other words, it depends on where you buy, and how you shop, and what you buy. If I buy 1 apple, on the sidewalk, you pay for it. It is different10 cents or 11 cents or anything you can get. Mr. ANFUSO. Where did you buy those apples? Mrs. PERSINGER. I bought these in the east Sixties at a mediumpriced small store. I realize that this is even more than mine. Mr. FISHER. May I say something relative to Delicious? Mrs. PERSINGER. Yes. Mr. FISHER. You will find them this weekend 3 pounds for 35 cents. Did you buy that in a delicatessen? Mrs. PERSINGER. No. Mr. FISHER. It is very unusual for apples at this time of the yearI think I haven't seen apples any cheaper in the last 10 years as we have this year because they have a bumper crop in New York State, had quite a crop up in the New England States and they are really pushing apples. Mr. ANFUSO. We will have a panel on apples later. Mr. FISHER. I want to compare the prices they are being sold for generally throughout the city. Mr. ANFUSO. When did you buy those? Mrs. PERSINGER. Yesterday afternoon. Mr. McINTIRE. Could we ask the New York apple grower what they are bringing to the producer packed? Those are packed up there. Mr. CLARK. The Delicious that she has there, of that quality up until the last 2 or 3 days have been selling f. o. b., the farm packing house for probably around $3.50 or $3.75 a box. Mr. ANFUSO. A box? Mr. CLARK. That box would contain probably 125 apples of that size. Mr. ANFUSO. That would be about 3 cents a piece? Mr. CLARK. That price in the last 3 or 4 days has declined to the point I think yesterday morning they were in the vicinity of $3.25 and $3.50 delivered in New York, which would probably be no more than $2.75 at home. Mr. ANFUSO. Let me ask you this. These apples come from upstate New York? Mr. CLARK. I understood her to say that they did. I am not sure where they came from. Mr. ANFUSO. It may be 60 or 70 miles away? Mr. CLARK. Yes. |