Show I Food Dollars Get Heavy Use Food Budget Dont Don't blame food budget if it doesn't stretch around your grocery bill Take count of the number of non non food food items in your grocery basket bosket Naturally It Is la convenient to buy soap tooth paste magazines and other items as you buy groceries On the other hand its iris hardly fair to put these into the food budget budge The average customers spend 15 cents of every food tood dollar for the non food Stems Items Cigarettes and tobacco took 5 cents of the average grocery dollar Paper products took over 2 cents as did soap and de de- Health and beauty aids took almost 2 cents The meat d department got only 22 23 cents of grocery dollar dairy products about 12 cents and produce 6 cents There has been a big Increase in fn the number and variety of nonfood Items Stems In grocery stores Things like soaps and laundry supplies have been on grocery melv shelves so long Jong they s seem em to be bea a natural part of the grocery bill J I However wever now there are greeting cards card clothing elec elee electrical appliance hardware gar gar- den hose hoe photographic supplies magazines records etc Those These items generally move mush slower than do the food tood items As a result the difference between their COt cost and their selling price must be bigger to cover the overhead costs of handling and selling |