Tomato Soup Abundance

Things can get more expensive and more affordable at the same time.

The Campbell Soup Company was founded 156 years ago in 1869 in Camden, New Jersey by two entrepreneurs: Joseph Campbell, a tinsmith, and Abraham Anderson, a fruit merchant and preserves maker. In 1894 Joseph Campbell retired and Arthur Dorrance became the new president.

In 1895, Campbell's introduced its first ready-to-eat soup, Beefsteak Tomato, in a ja…