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Today, while running around Denton, I stopped to pick up a gallon of milk. When I looked at the price, I realized the gallon was cheaper than the half gallon. Now, these were the same brand, and it wasn't a price mix up. The sad thing was someone walked right up and got a half gallon. I don't know which is more stupid?

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Today, while running around Denton, I stopped to pick up a gallon of milk. When I looked at the price, I realized the gallon was cheaper than the half gallon. Now, these were the same brand, and it wasn't a price mix up. The sad thing was someone walked right up and got a half gallon. I don't know which is more stupid?

The bigger issue is that the price of MIlk has just about tripled, from .90 cents a gallon 3 years ago to close to $3 a gallon today.

Just is one of the many things that have skyrocketed in cost the past 3 years.

That is by far the bigger issue of what is wrong with this country, don't you think?

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The bigger issue is that the price of MIlk has just about tripled, from .90 cents a gallon 3 years ago to close to $3 a gallon today.

Just is one of the many things that have skyrocketed in cost the past 3 years.

That is by far the bigger issue of what is wrong with this country, don't you think?

Absurd. A gallon of milk was not 90 cents 3 years ago. Not even close.

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I think milk is cheaper today than it was ten years ago (around when I moved), but more expensive than three in Los Angeles. When i first got here it was about $3.69 a gallon, now it's about $2.99. A few years ago it bottomed out about $2.29.

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Nope, 89 cents a gallon at Kroger 3 years ago. Now about 2.90.

Nice graph, though.

When I first moved back to the US in 2006 it was around the price that it is now. It shot down RAPIDLY around 2008 and started creeping back up again last year. The grocery stores were losing their shirts on it for a while/my farmer uncle in Wisconsin said inputs around that time were creeping down as well.

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Nope, 89 cents a gallon at Kroger 3 years ago. Now about 2.90.

Nice graph, though.

Kroger has always had lower prices in milk if I recall. Not to long ago maybe a year or two they guaranteed the cheapest milk in town against all their competitors no matter what. I don't believe they do that anymore tho.

As for the costs...well the cost of food has gone up for a very very long time and as someone whose been in the restaurant business and know many friends in it unfortunately it will continue to rise. The demand for food is just way too high.

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In 1957 I saw him turn turn the Secretary of Agriculture into the Secretary of the Interior. It was hell on their wives, but it sure brought down corn prices. Built a house out of corn. It was the worst home I ever owed? when it got really hot it smelled like Frito's.

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Kroger has always had lower prices in milk if I recall. Not to long ago maybe a year or two they guaranteed the cheapest milk in town against all their competitors no matter what. I don't believe they do that anymore tho.

It's called a loss leader - Stores, especially grocery stores, sell something so cheaply they make no money or even lose a little money. The purpose of the loss leader is to get you in the store with the hope being you'll buy other items with high margins while there.

But to say milk has risen from .90 to $3+ in three years would be incorrect. If anything that .90 milk was a loss leader and not the true price of the milk.

Dairy products are heavily subsidized by the feds and prices paid to producers are regulated to the point that a producer in Texas makes about the same as a producer in Wisconsin etc regardless of the cost to produce. That, according to the government, is one way to keep prices and supply reasonably steady and similar across the country.

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The bigger issue is that the price of MIlk has just about tripled, from .90 cents a gallon 3 years ago to close to $3 a gallon today.

Just is one of the many things that have skyrocketed in cost the past 3 years.

That is by far the bigger issue of what is wrong with this country, don't you think?

What's an even bigger issue is people trying to score political points on anything and everything, don't you think?

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What's an even bigger issue is people trying to score political points on anything and everything, don't you think?

Well, it wasn't meant as a political statement, just a fact statement. 90 cents at Kroger 3 years ago verses $2.90 at Kroger last week.

Maybe if you didn't look for a political statement in everything, you wouldn't find one, don't you think?

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The bigger issue is that the price of MIlk has just about tripled, from .90 cents a gallon 3 years ago to close to $3 a gallon today.

Just is one of the many things that have skyrocketed in cost the past 3 years.

That is by far the bigger issue of what is wrong with this country, don't you think?

---I am sure it is Obama's fault...hahaha.... You listen to Fox and the Fox-Street-Journal too much ( Murdock owns it too). [ hint milk has been not that cheap in years unless you were buying milk that was going out of date in a couple of hours........ and if you really check... gasoline is cheaper now that in the summer of 2008 also... just not cheaper than it after the economic meltdown that fall [ before the elections ] when we were bailing out banks, about to bail out car-companies, repo-ing houses left and right, and the DOW was dropping like a rock.

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---I am sure it is Obama's fault...hahaha.... You listen to Fox and the Fox-Street-Journal too much ( Murdock owns it too). [ hint milk has been not that cheap in years unless you were buying milk that was going out of date in a couple of hours........ and if you really check... gasoline is cheaper now that in the summer of 2008 also... just not cheaper than it after the economic meltdown that fall [ before the elections ] when we were bailing out banks, about to bail out car-companies, repo-ing houses left and right, and the DOW was dropping like a rock.

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Good lord, people.

Prices are going up. It's a fact of life

Since you chose the Fox route with me, let me respond in kind: Please take your socialist loving Obama crap to another thread.

And I didn't know you followed me down the aisle as I PURCHASED MILK FROM KROGER 3 YEARS AGO FOR THE CONSISTENT PRICE OF 89 TO 99 CENTS A GALLON!!

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