Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 866449027

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93831

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Cost of living in German towns

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LXI, 548 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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MAGDEBURG. 323 gathered from the fact that the sale at the Society’s shops in 1906 amounted to £241,000, or an average of £17 4a. per member, of which about two-thirds represented groceries (including coal, wood and other kinds of fuel), and one-third bread, produced in the Society’s bakery, which is one of the largest and most up-to-date establishments of its kind in Germany. The Society paid its members a bonus of 9 per cent, on their purchases in 1906. Besides the co-operative stores, the shops of certain “ multiple ” firms, some of which make a speciality of coffee and others of flour, are largely dealt with by working-class families, while the customers of the " universal provider ” establishments are for the most part people of the middle classes. Groceries and other Commodities. In order to ascertain the prices usually paid by the working classes for some of the principal household provisions other than butchers’ meat, returns have been obtained from a number of private dealers in such articles established in different parts of the town, and having among their customers a considerable proportion of people belonging to the working classes. Returns have also been furnished by the Co-operative Society, Consumverein Neustadt (which has uniform prices at its 30 branch shops), from a similar society composed of men employed at one of the principal engineering firms, and from two “ multiple ” firms, one for coffee and the other for flour. The price quoted by any establish ment for a given article has reference to the quality of that article most generally bought by working-class customers. From the data obtained in this way it has been possible to deduce for each of the articles enumerated in the following table the predominant price paid in October, 1905, and December, 1906 :— Predominant Prices paid by the Working Classes in October, 1905, and December, 1906. Commodity. Predominant Prices. October, 1905. December, 1906. Coffee (“ Campinas ’ “ Santos ”). Sugar :— Loaf ... ... White granulated Bacon :— Fat Streaky Eggs, foreign Cheese :— Limburg Tilsit Swiss ... Butter Margarine ... Potatoes Flour :— Wheaten Rye Bread, of rye Milk, fresh Coal ... ... ... Paraffin oil or per lb. No. per Is. per lb. per 7 lbs. per 4 lbs. per quart. per cwt. per gallon. lid. 2\d. 2fd. 9# 11 d. 11 to 14 51 d. to 6^d. 8# Is. to Is. Id. Is. 2%d. 7§d. to 8fd. d. to 3d. 10|d. to Is. 0£d. lOd. 4\d. to 4§d. 2\d. to 21d. 10^d. to lid. 94d. lid. 2\d. to 2|d. 2^d. to 2|d. 9|d. 9|d. to lid. 11 to 14 5|d. to 6Id. 8§d. Is. to Is. Id. Is. 2\d. 7|d. to 8fd. 2|d. to 3d. 10|d. to Is. Ofd. lOd. 4\d. to 4|d. 21d. to 2|d. 10|d. to lid. 9 id. It would appear from the above that prices were generally the same at the two dates compared, the only exceptions being bacon and sugar, the former exhibiting a downward, and the latter an upward tendency. Certain of the articles mentioned in the table call for some comment. While the coffee most generally used by workpeople is the cheapest procurable, costing about lid. per lb. retail, the product from which a great part of the domestic “ coffee ” is brewed costs much less than this. In many cases the early morning and afternoon drink is made from " malt coffee,” which costs about 3\d. per lb. or from coffee with an admixture of some such substitute as 2 s 2 29088

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