Ep 1411 The Snack Chips Man

Along the Food Chain with Michael Olson…   #1411 The Snack Chips Man Jake Stenton, President Natural Bridges Company     You stand in front of the grocer’s selection of snack chips and think, ‘A penny’s worth of potato in a bag that costs a buck!’    We Americans eat about $50 billion dollars worth of snack chips every year.  That pencils out to about $167 per person per year.  And the price of those bags of snack chips keeps going through the roof.  According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, a bag of chips that cost $6.75 in 1977 would cost $33.39 today!  That so much money is spent on those bags of snack chips, leads us to wonder: What would it take to bag up some chips and sell them?