date:Mar 18, 2013
The average price paid for white pan bread and whole wheat bread both fell in February, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor.
The national average retail price of white pan bread was 141.1c, down 1.1c per lb from January and down 3.1c from February 2012. The decrease followed a decrease of 1.4c per lb in January. On a month-to-month basis, the average price for white pan bread in February fell in two regions down 4.6c in the Northeast