King Soopers (Krogers) has two brands of store milk. I buy the better, for around $4.50 last Sunday. If I recall correctly, the cheaper was not quite a dollar less.
Milk, Gallon, 1% at Giant Eagle was $3.26 last week, on sale $2.19 starting today.
Half gallon is just $1.99 at Trader Joe’s, where it had been $1.69 until recently.
It’s about $2.49 or $3.00 depending on the brand at the regular grocery stores.
What makes one better? Aside from regional differences in taste (which can be quite noticable), isn’t milk just milk?
At my local supermarket it’s €1 (currently $1.23) for a litre.
You must live in Pennsylvania. There are more stupid laws on the books here than anywhere else.
Robin
We hail from where no ones life/liberty/happiness/wallet is safe while the General Court is in session—The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Yup. The People’s Republic of Massachusetts. My first guess. Of course that’s because I grew up there, rather than any belief that any other Commonwealth doesn’t have similarly stupid laws. :smack:
A little less than $1.00/ gallon. Of course I make it and I thank all of you for paying a whole lot more than that. My kids are really enjoying their summer too. Thank you again.
Wal-Mart brand is $3.99
Talk to the USDA. They’re the ones who decided that the dairy farmers weren’t paid enough.
And yet milk in any of its permutations, whole, 2%, 1%, skimmed, is still less expensive that bottled tap water. Go figure.
If any explanation – excuse is needed, about a year ago dairy farmers in the Upper Mississippi Valley were getting about $10.00 per hundred weight for milk. At that price they were losing money hand over fist. There were two answers to this financial dilemma. One was to just sell out, take the capitol gains and retire to town and live on the rent from the crop acres. A fair number of older farmers did that. The result was fewer cows and less milk. The other answer, for dairy farmers who wanted to stay in the business or who could not afford to retire, was to cull the daylights out of the heard keeping only the most productive cows. Even with more milk per cow and more efficient conversion of feed into milk the result was fewer cows and less milk.
While I would not discount the machinations of American Milk Produces, Inc, and other similar big dairy processors and the Department of Ag, the economic rules still apply. A reduced supply and a constant demand means a higher price. Its that simple. While dairy farmers are now getting something closer to a price that provides a decent return I don’t see any of them getting rich. The work still requires a small operator to be up at 4:30 AM every damn day, to milk twice a day morning and evening seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, year after year, with a hideous investment in land, equipment and animals, and a big operator to milk three times a day with and even bigger investment and a labor cost to boot.
I’m not going to complain until a gallon of bottled spring water (as delivered through the municipal tap) or a bottle of sugar water with some caffeine and coloring added cost as much as milk.
Here whole name brand is $5.35 a gallon. Store Generic is $5.15. Florida.
I would have thought so too, but I can tell the difference. The cheaper milk just isn’t as rich. (I drink 2%, so richness is relative.)
Either I misremembered last time, or the price went down: $4.25 today. And y’know, I was looking at my receipt to make sure I’m remembering right this time? And I didn’t get charged for it. Guess I’ll stop back in tomorrow and pay for it - I hope the price hasn’t gone up again!
At the supermarket down the street, 2% is $3.19 a gallong, whole milk about half a buck more; that’s for the generic. However, at the local Dairy Mart, they sell a wonderful product called “Ultra Skim” it’s skim milk with some milk solids added to make it taste like 2% (it really does, too) and it’s $2.89 a gallon. Plus the store has a milk club: buy 12 gallongs, get the 13th free. Now, that might seem like BFD to you, but given that in this household we go through about 5 gallons a week, it’s pretty substantial. They also have the cheapest gas in town.
Of course, “gallongs”=gallons. Dammit, I even previewed!
Latest update, 1 gal of 2% Moo at the WalMonster:
3.15.
Bigest shocker, the half gallon of half and half went from 2.50 to 4.22 :eek:
Only good news is gas droped more to 1.819
I’m living in VT, and I jsuat went the other day to get just 1 gallon of milk from the store, and after tax it came to exactly $3.99.
I got a gallon of 2% at a convenience store yesterday, and it was $4.39.
Are cows on strike or something?
If any Canadians from southern Ontario are reading this, I’d be curious to know how much that ritzy brand of cold-filtered milk is going for now. It’s been 6 years since I saw any, and can’t recall the brand name, but back then it was so outrageously expensive we never even ventured to taste it. (It was something like $7 for 3 litres.)
At a Costco, it’s $3.95 a gallon
At any other supermarket, on sale, average is $3.99 to $4.69
At any other supermarket, NOT on sale, $5.99 to $6.99
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