The Char Report

Price ticker

  • Grocery wings $2.64/lb â–¼ 24.1%
  • Restaurant wing order $13.90 â–² 0.8%
  • Whole chicken $2.06/lb â–² 0.1%
  • Butter (sauce base) $3.96/lb â–¼ 17.3%
  • Flour $0.55/lb â–¼ 3.2%
  • Cheese (cheddar) $6.13/lb â–² 1.4%
  • Tomatoes $1.99/lb â–² 4.3%
  • Eating out (CPI) +3.5% YoY

Grocery Run

  • The Maynard Grocery Run

    The Maynard Grocery Run

    Five days before Christmas, a plain package of raw wings from the store, price sticker included — the second “before” shot in this archive,…

  • Before They Were Wings: The Grocery Run

    Before They Were Wings: The Grocery Run

    Every home-cooked batch starts somewhere, and this entry captures that somewhere: a plain package of raw chicken wings, straight off the store shelf, price…