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Went to Krogers (in SW Ohio) today to pick up a few things. Amazingly a gallon of fat free milk was just 99 cents! Can you dairy farming folks actually make money at those prices? Egg prices are similarly priced very low. Now bacon, on the other hand ...
 
Called a "loss leader". It gets you into the store to buy other things that they make real money on. As far as a buck a gallon,
well that's just under what a dairyman gets from the co-op anyway. Where I live, where we don't have large markets, the cost is
$4.39 by the crooks down at the corner about three miles away. If I go to the closest chain store, about 10 miles, it's $3.79 and
$2.79 at Wally World, but it's close to 15 miles away. Haven't seen it cheaper- maybe we need a Kroegers.
 
"Called a "loss leader". It gets you into the store to buy other things"

Exactly! Ever notice the milk is always at the very back of the store?
 
My receipt as of August 11 says 2.15 per gallon. Wegman's at Geneva, NY. No doubt a loss leader.
 
Buy 4 or 5 gallons at a time and put them in your deep freeze. After they thaw out in the fridge, you won't be able to taste the difference. I've only had a milk jug develop a leak by doing this one time.
 
Lots of stores here (eastern Canada) sell milk at
cost. Milk here at the farm gate is 64c/litre (a bit
over a quart) give or take but at cost is about double
that in a carton. I have no idea what milk in the US
is currently I know it's way down but I've seen in
Hoards Dairyman in the past it's been $12-
14/hundred pounds but it might even be as low as
$9-10?
 
Little more than double actually most stores here charge retail 2l milk (close to 2/3 a US gallon?) $3.40 CDN
 
Now that you say that I do not know of a store in the last 30 years here that had it other than at one far end or the other lol
cnt
 
Joe, I would not carry that stuff home for it. This evening at Kroger at St Marys Ohio half gallon hole was $1.29, same for chocklate and I don't pay atentiom to 2% but think it was the same. Gallons were I think $1.69 but it would spoil before I got a gallon used. Even a half gallon will do that before it is used up.
 
"Ever notice the milk is always at the very back of the store?"

It's at the back of the store because the milk display area is part of the walk-in cooler where the bulk of the milk and other dairy products are stored. And the cooler is at the back of the store by the unloading dock instead of taking up space in the customer area.
 
Don't the cooler take the same amount of space no matter where it's located? It's back there for a different reason like others said.
 
Dairies around here still complaining about
having to dump milk, but still building new
facilities and adding on to the old ones.
Funny thing is, I can work any time I want
to, hauling milk out of state.
 
Try pouring a bit out to increase the air space before you freeze it so the plastic container doesn't get expanded by the ice. Seems to have stopped our leakage problems.
 
(quoted from post at 03:09:13 08/16/17) "Ever notice the milk is always at the very back of the store?"

It's at the back of the store because the milk display area is part of the walk-in cooler where the bulk of the milk and other dairy products are stored. And the cooler is at the back of the store by the unloading dock instead of taking up space in the customer area.
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It forces you to walk through the store in hopes you'll find something else you "need". One of our local chains had a .99 cent a gallon sale on Monday (limit 2).
 
Most stores do have it at the back, so that you have to walk through the store to get it. Our local "employee owned" HyVee has it at the back, but also has a small display right up at the front with milk for those who just need to run in and grab it. In through the in door, zig-zag around the Starbucks kiosk, grab milk and make a hard right to be in the express checkout.
 
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