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Why can’t you find four litre milk containers in the smaller drug stores? Why does milk have to 7.49 at the grocery stores while it’s 5.29 at big box stores? Why is four litre milk in plastic bags the same price as four litre milk in plastic containers? Why? —I Cry Milk
This article appears in Mar 7-13, 2013.
24 Comments
If I had to guess it is because we in NS are paid a very good wage, our taxes are low, and as a result we have more disposable income thereby warranting the milk prices we have here. In Ontario, 4L is 3.99, I feel bad for them because clearly they have less income than we do……….. 8-|
Greed is the only answer to your question. The lowest I’ve seen 4L of milk is 5.19, so I’d guess stores buy it for 4.50 at most. So the downtown locations are simply looking to make the most money on a product that many use.
Milk just moved upwards in price $4.07 for a 2 litre container for all brands. Milk prices must be regulated as they always the same whether it be Scotsburn, Farmers or Baxters and they go up in unison.
As well, why are prices cheaper in Halifax as opposed to the Valley? Where do the bovines reside anyway? That’s right.
I’m gonna start keeping cows in my backyard. By-law be damned. No more grass to cut, all the fertilizer I could ever use and free milk, (and maybe the occasional sunday roast or bbq steak). They will look like this: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsrf4vCO… and the bull will be named Hamish. He will moo with a Scottish accent. “MMMMUUH!”
Why would you expect a drug store, let alone a small one, to carry every possible milk option? It’s a drug store!
straight from the cow…
yak.
http://drawception.com/pub/panels/2012/4-3…
I could never drink warm milk…. blech.
Sorry. That link should have been this:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsrf4vCO…
Damn you edit feature!
It’s a milk conspiracy!
When I get my cows, I’ll start a milk bootlegging business or, “Milk Running”.
I’ll start off small at first, so as not to raise suspicion. A few crates here. A couple of polys there. Have a small network of speak-easys. “Shake Joints” they’ll be called, and some street-level chocolate milk or “brown cow” dealers.
Then, when I get a good foot hold, I’ll move into the big time. Bootlegged cheese, yogurt and ice cream! I’ll start muscling out the other gangs. The Baxter Boys, the Scotsburn Crew, the Farmer Brothers, they’ll ALL fall. When I’m through, that flapper Dairy Queen will be forced to dance the Charleston on street corners just to keep herself in Dilly bars.
White gold, baby! This town is ripe for the pickin’. There won’t be an udder pumped in this city without me knowing it. The streets are gonna run white! Mwah-ah-ah-ah!
I clearly need more sleep.
i thought about getting goats for milk and grass control but apparently goats do eat everything
If you want some good milk, head over to the foxhill farm section at the farmer’s market.
The bottles it comes in kick ass too…
people still drink milk?
It’s simple, it’s called regulation.
I have managed to mostly get off the stuff, other than using some for cooking. Been gone from my coffee, tea, cereal etc. for years. I keep some skim milk powder and a couple of cans of no fat or 2% evaporated, around for when I may need to use some. Works fine and helped with keeping my weight down too. I mostly had become tired of dragging heavy containers of it from the store a few years – and price increases ago.
believe it or don’t, milk, tobacco and eggs have a regular price board here in good ole n.s.
they have to charge a niform price or get fined for not obeying the price guides, as set out by the dairy council of canada, and tobacco taxing boards. look it up, i can find a link, but do your own search.
I miss chilled, unpasteurized straight from the cow milk. Has to be cold and in a glass bottle.
There is also a similar system in Alberta, where everyone makes tremendous profit on $4.50 for 4L.
In NS, they are all greedy pigs. Dobeys sells at almost $8 for 4L.
I paid $7.79 for a small tub of Feta cheese yesterday, oh the humanity. Dairy is becoming too expensive in Shawshank.
why wouldn’t 4L in bags cost the same as 4L in a plastic container. it’s still 4L of milk isn’t it?
It is still 4 L of milk but we have to pay for packaging as well.OP is asking why are we being charged the same price for milk in plastic bags and milk in hard plastic containers?
I agree milk in the plastic container should cost more.
Thread highjack warning! I’m not usually a fan of reality TV, but anyone tuning into Big Brother Canada? There’s a real live Hants Co dairy farmer in the cast. Whooooo, Hants County!
Ladies (and men if that’s your deal) he’s jacked, if anyone’s into that.
yo, OP, go to SHOPPERS DRUG MART, across from dartmouth bridge bus terminal, (beside dollarama), I buy BAXTER 4L jug for $5.49
same price at one in TACOMA ( near main & Tacoma, Dartmouth), beside Sobeys..
(( I have checked, its cheaper than both Walmart ($5.89) & No Frills ($5.85)
on Portland street ( MT buses 58,59,61,68 from either bridge terminal, alderny terminal or penhorn terminal), a great little place isacross from lakecrest, theres a great little store called pharma choice, (its beside Robins Donuts) this place carries so much stuff, you’d think it was a bargain department store, as well as a kick-a$s pharmacy, they have cheap 2L milk (BAXTER), also in that plaza is a amazing little laundromat, ‘your family laundromat’ great people run it, good prices also they have a massive washer (quad loader)
boru1014, in ontario, jugs are rare, only 7-eleven usually has them, its a $.25 deposit on top of milk price..
btw, in Hamilton (my hometown) my Mum gets milk 4L bag for $4.49 at a convenience store..
A couple of years ago I was talking to a dairy farmer and he told me that they got 79 cents a liter of whatever comes out of the udder (milk, cream, etc).