why's bread so expensive?

[Codeine]

15. I buy store brand sourdough

and whole wheat and they’re both ridiculously cheap. Try a different store?

It’s easy to forget bread pricing has to account for a fairly high degree of loss for out of code product. Additionally, that short shelf life means bakery and bread distribution companies need to have daily merchandising of the product to maintain rotation and pull for codes. Those costs all need to be “baked in”, as it were.