U.S. Dairy Products Post Record Prices
US - Forget the war in Iraq, the presidential election or other seemingly weightier matters on the public agenda. The women in Jennifer McCormick's circle are talking about the high price of milk.
10 September 2007
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"Everybody's talking about it. We've all noticed the price. We're just sticker-shocked," McCormick, 38, a Bartow mother of three, said outside the city's Publix supermarket.
McCormick said she used to buy more than a gallon a week of organic milk, but she switched to nonorganic once she noticed the higher prices a couple of months ago.
U.S. retail whole milk prices set another record in August at an average $3.87 a gallon, up 17.6 percent from $3.29 in January, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Shoppers in Atlanta paid an average $4.39 a gallon, the highest on the monthly USDA survey.
Locally, Publix sold milk for $4.29 per gallon Friday at its supermarkets in Bartow and the Grove Park Shopping Center in Lakeland. The local CVS pharmacies had milk on sale at $3.49 per gallon, according to weekly circular ads. The Walgreens drugstore had it for $3.89 a gallon.
Source: The Ledger
