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same thing applies to quality x)

I’ve observed the opposite effect. Milk at the grocery store costs over $4/gallon these days while I can still get it from the local convenience store for between $2.50 and $3.40. I think I have to echo kiwano here.

What Nathon said. While 7-11 is perhaps not consistently cheaper than conventional grocery stores for milk, it is generally on par or slightly better.

What’s really weird is when you can get a gallon of milk for less than a gallon of gas…

So maybe we should find a way to utilize the milk by learning to use it as fuel for a combustion engine?

Where I live now, this holds true. Where I went to law school, I could usually save 50 cents or so by buying milk at the 7-Eleven. I think this was due to national pricing. 7-Eleven charges the same for 4 litres of milk anywhere in Canada, but milk costs more in Dominion in Ontario than it does in Safeway in Alberta. Just a guess, though.

For us it’s cheaper to buy milk from the convenient store at the gas station— about $2 cheaper than at the supermarket, weirdly enough.

What bugs ME is that it’s so much cheaper to get soda. I know that milk actually is worth stuff, but the fact that such unhealthy stuff is so much cheaper bugs me!

@Neil:

Is the supermarket-brand any less good than the “good stuff” (presumably a broader-reaching brand)? That line of reasoning has always eluded me. Unless you’re into some sort of hippy organic free-range non-caffeinated unpasteurized or somesuch, commercial cow milk is commercial cow milk, isn’t it?

Back when I lived in Pennsylvania, there were signs outside many convience stores saying “milk at state minimum prices”. While it rather annoys me that there *is* a state minimum price on milk, apparenly you couldn’t get milk cheaper then a Turkey Hill anywhere in Pennsylvania.

@deadlytoque: It depends where in Ontario and where in Alberta. I come from dairy country in Ontario and from frontier in Alberta, and I can tell you milk is far more expensive in my current neck of AB than my former neck of Ontario.

I gather data on this on half gallon of Organic Milk recently here’s what I found. And yes it’s generally true.

SMALL GROCERY
Organic Strauss Creamery from Star Grocery in Elmwood Berkeley
$3.89 (originally $5.39 less $1.50 returnable bottle)

Horizon Organic, Yasai Market on College
$4.29

Clover Organic, Andronico’s on Solano Ave.
$4.99

LARGE GROCERY
Organic Trader Joe’s in Oakland
$3.29

Whole Foods, Telegraph
Strauss Creamery Organic
$4.19

Clover Organic
$3.49

365 Organic
$3.29

Actually, what I have noticed for more than 20 years is that the price of gas is often very close to the price of milk. What does THAT mean?
Think about it. And then, wonder if it is a coincidence that you can buy both at a Shell station…
Curiouser and curiouser!