On Demand
Are You Being Gouged?
A Brian Lehrer Show Crowdsourcing Project
October 8, 2007
Our latest "crowdsourcing" project asks listeners to go to their local grocery store and find out the price of three goods: milk, lettuce and beer. We've mapped the results below. Click on a tab above the map to see results for that item. Click on a pincushion to see the results for that particular block.
| Most Expensive Lettuce: | ||
| Store | Address | Price |
| Food Emporium | East 14th Street and Union Square East, New York, NY | $2.49 |
| Food Emporium | 2431 Broadway, New York, NY | $2.49 |
| Least Expensive Lettuce: | ||
| Store | Address | Price |
| Food Basic | 929 Lincoln Ave, Glen Rock, NJ | $0.88 |
| Garden of Eden | Broadway at West 107th Street, New York, NY | $0.99 |
| Whole Foods | Union Square, New York, NY | $0.99 |
More Information: View the submissions Comments
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Map key - Price of a head of iceberg lettuce: |
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- less than $1.25
- between $1.25 and $1.75
- more than $1.75
