Science, Maths & Technology
Prices, location and spread
...technology, changing tastes and consumers’ spending habits. The media often have fun writing about the way the list of representative items changes each year. In the 1950s, the mangle, crisps and dance hall admissions were added to the basket, with soap flakes among the items taken out. Two decades later, the cassette recorder and dried mashed potato made it in, with...