Potato chips · per 16 oz · 1949 Estimated
$0.64in June 1949 — about $8.90 in today's money.
- Price in 1949$0.64
- Same money today$8.90
- Actual price now · June 2026$6.63
- Change since 1949+940%
Price history
Record & method
No price was recorded for 1949. 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 31 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 1949
- Coverage
- January 1980 – June 2026
- Adjusted by
- CPIAUCNS · 23.9 → 333.952 (June 2026)
- Category curve
- CUUR0000SAF11
- Back-cast
- 31 years before the first record · low confidence
- License
- Public domain