Potato chips · per 16 oz · 1946 Estimated
$0.48in June 1946 — about $8.50 in today's money.
- Price in 1946$0.48
- Same money today$8.50
- Actual price now · June 2026$6.63
- Change since 1946+1293%
Price history
Record & method
No price was recorded for 1946. This figure is estimated: we took the earliest observed price (January 1980) and moved it back along the category inflation curve — a back-cast of 34 years. The further back it reaches, the less it should be trusted. Treat it as an approximation, not a historical fact.
- Source
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED. Public domain.
- Series
- APU0000718311
- Estimated for
- June 1946
- Coverage
- January 1980 – June 2026
- Adjusted by
- CPIAUCNS · 18.7 → 333.952 (June 2026)
- Back-cast
- 34 years before the first record · low confidence
- License
- Public domain