date:Jun 15, 2012
The national average retail price of white pan bread was 141.2c, down 1.4c per lb from April and down 6c from May 2011. The decrease followed an increase of 3.1c per lb in April. On a month-to-month basis, the average price for white pan bread in May rose in two regions up 0.9c in the West and up 0.3c in the South and fell in two regions down 7.3c in the Northeast and down 3.3c per lb in the Midwest.
At 202.7c per lb, the national average price for whole wheat bread was up 0.8c per lb from Ap