Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-11-15 | Page 6 | No Reduction in Bread Price

NO REDUCTION IN BREAD PRICE Ogden Baker Explains Why Drop in Flour Will Not Lower Product Lespne the abrupt drop in flour prices, no decrease In the price of bread la anticipated by bakers In Mg den and In the state, according to Lloyd C Mitchell, manager of the ogden og-den Baking compan ' Increases In the weight of the loaf can and will be made from time tfl time, a the higher priced flour Is dla posed of and the flotir la purchase,! j the present market price, bin the nil' enV-. entering into th maktnj ol iireml have shown such an Increase recently, that no price reduction enn he made." he declared KEPT PRICE low I'tah bakers will be seiiiuR bread at the same price as other -ijtes. If decrease I made in thSM other stales, for t'tah last year kepi Its bread price down to IB cents whil- other states raised to 18 cents,'" he said. ' Ljst year t'tah bakers decided not to raise the price above 15 t ents although they worked on a very small margin of profit, while bakers in the .ast ami weat taiscd their prices The holding of the price to this mark was made possible through the purchase of large quantities of materials at good prices. "Although there has been h drop In flour prices, the Increasei q labor and other materials has been such that the lowered flour price does not offset off-set the increase of the other materials. I,ahor ha increased 10 per cent, Lard, sugar, waxed papei end 'he manv things n'-rtssary Jn bread making hl taken big Jumps In price. For tins reason, the price of bread cannot be reduced at the present lime. LARGER LOAF "Bakers or the state, however, have agreed that they will increase th weight ot the loaf of bread from t initio init-io lime as the old stocks of flour are used and new flour bought at the lower low-er i.rlce. Flour Is the only Item used In bread making which hts decreased in price over prices of last year, while scores of other commodities have showed a decided Jump."