>>216389454
Real bread is expensive in America because it's marketed as a premium version of mass produced slopbread. There's a much smaller market for it here, the majority of Americans are perfectly content with eating the slopbread that you can buy for 1 or 2 dollars a loaf. Any place that sells real, freshly baked bread always markets it as "artisanal" or whatever other marketing terms bakeries use to artificially inflate the cost.
>>216390240
Real bread is more expensive outside of supermarkets you bozo. The only grocery store near me that actually has a bakery is a Wegmans, and their cheapest full loafs start at $8. Alternatively you could go to a Walmart or Food Lion, but those places' "bakeries" just defrost frozen loafs they get shipped to them from a factory (I worked in one in high school). There's a small business bakery down the street from me that sells loafs for $11 or more, and it's barely better than the Wegmans bread. They just need to charge more because they're making less sales, they don't even do the bullshit marketing stuff I described in my above reply.