Curious about COL, what is a gallon of milk where you are?

firsttogo

Non-organic 2.99/gallon for non-name brand

Organic Valley 4.88/ Gallon

Target used to have milk on sale for 1.89 a gallon, and today it was 2.99 on sale.... I feel like that is nuts!

My cousin owns a dairy farm, and says they are not even getting what they  were a year ago per gallon, so where is the price increase coming from?

chocolatechip06

4L in Canada is considered equivalent or thereabout to 1 gallon in the US.

 We buy non organic and it's $5.49 (on average) for homogenized milk and $4.47 for the other types of milk.  Prices have really gone up!

Mr.&MrsS

For us it depends on where you get it. We buy non organic milk and it is about $4 a gallon for store brand at the grocery store. If we go to BJ's it is anywhere from $1.99-$3.00 depending on the day. The boys drink soy milk and we pay $4.50 for a half gallon of that! (And they go through a half gallon pretty much every day).

Kahana

We pay $4.89 a gallon for non organic milk. Organic is about $7.50 a gallon.

naflmj

We pay 4.50-5 from half gallonsn of raw milk. When we need milk quickly, organic is 2.99 half gallon for the store brand.

stepgirl21

Gal of Horizon Organic at Walmart in suburb of denver $6.88

Gal of Store brand Organic at my local grocery store $4.88

schmoodle

I have no earthly idea - I suppose I could try to look it up, but now I'm fascinated, does everyone just know off the top of their head how much a gallon of milk costs, to the cent, without looking it up? Am I that weird? I remember it was a question in Toodle's baby book and I had to make a point to check the next time we were at the store. I guess because it's something we have to buy I just grab it without paying attention to the price. We get the store brand for us, Horizon Organic w/ DHA for Toodle (which comes in half gallons, not gallons).

I'm not completely clueless, I would guess between $3 and $4 but again, I don't know. It could be $2 or $5 for all I know.

wvagirl

1 gallon of organic milk $5.89 a gallon. 

 

LisaMarisa

I believe it is $4.29 but I'm not positive.  We buy from a local dairy farm.

LIAngel

I just bought a gallon today- $3.75 for non name brand.  Clearvalue to be exact. 

togo

At bj's it's $2.49 a gal, trader Joes it's $3.39 gal and at stop and shop it's $4.39. I have been noticing an increase lately.

LIAngel

schmoodle:

I have no earthly idea - I suppose I could try to look it up, but now I'm fascinated, does everyone just know off the top of their head how much a gallon of milk costs, to the cent, without looking it up? Am I that weird? I remember it was a question in Toodle's baby book and I had to make a point to check the next time we were at the store. I guess because it's something we have to buy I just grab it without paying attention to the price. We get the store brand for us, Horizon Organic w/ DHA for Toodle (which comes in half gallons, not gallons).

I'm not completely clueless, I would guess between $3 and $4 but again, I don't know. It could be $2 or $5 for all I know.

I just knew cause I had to buy some today, so I remembered.  

OrangeSmoke

wegmans is the cheapest around here for organic.... their regular milk is $2 and change for a gallon and $5.50 for organic.  I'm pretty sure they beat costco on that one.

Anywhere else we are looking at $6/7 per gallon of organic.

desabean

schmoodle:

I have no earthly idea - I suppose I could try to look it up, but now I'm fascinated, does everyone just know off the top of their head how much a gallon of milk costs, to the cent, without looking it up? Am I that weird? I remember it was a question in Toodle's baby book and I had to make a point to check the next time we were at the store. I guess because it's something we have to buy I just grab it without paying attention to the price. We get the store brand for us, Horizon Organic w/ DHA for Toodle (which comes in half gallons, not gallons).

I'm not completely clueless, I would guess between $3 and $4 but again, I don't know. It could be $2 or $5 for all I know.

 

I was thinking the same exact thing!  I was scrollng through the answers to see if someone from DC answered so I would know.  I feel that way about things like milk and gas-- the price isn't going to stop me from buying it so I just don't really know.

browneyedgrl4282

OrangeSmoke:

wegmans is the cheapest around here for organic.... their regular milk is $2 and change for a gallon and $5.50 for organic.  I'm pretty sure they beat costco on that one.

Anywhere else we are looking at $6/7 per gallon of organic.

 

Really? The wegman's we went today was close to 4 a gallon! 

browneyedgrl4282

Depends on where you buy between 3.50 to 4.90 a gallon. You would think Walmart would be cheapest and it is the most expensive!

alchris

Non-organic is $3.39-$3.59 and organic is $5.89-$5.99; I asked DH too and we had similar but slightly different recollections, LOL.  About 5 or so years ago the prices did a crazy sudden jump.  At some point recently then the non-organic came back down a bit, but otherwise they've both been more or less the same with some small fluctuations since then.

fallbride110406

schmoodle:

I have no earthly idea - I suppose I could try to look it up, but now I'm fascinated, does everyone just know off the top of their head how much a gallon of milk costs, to the cent, without looking it up? Am I that weird? I remember it was a question in Toodle's baby book and I had to make a point to check the next time we were at the store. I guess because it's something we have to buy I just grab it without paying attention to the price. We get the store brand for us, Horizon Organic w/ DHA for Toodle (which comes in half gallons, not gallons).

I'm not completely clueless, I would guess between $3 and $4 but again, I don't know. It could be $2 or $5 for all I know.

I do but I pretty much look at the price of everything I put in my cart because we try to stick to a budget.  We're a one income household (by choice since I could never make enough to make daycare costs worth it) and the babies NICU and first 6 months of life drained a lot of our savings so we have to watch our money.  I generally have a photographic memory for numbers though.

I buy our store brand (Meijer) because it's hormone free anyways and it's $2.99/gallon regular and usually $1.99 or 2 for $5 on sale.  I think the cartons of Horizon organic are $3.99 or 4.99, I can't remember what the tag says since I usually just walk past it. 

regenab

In our local grocery store it is $3.89/gallon for non-organic. Once a month I shop at the commissary (military grocery store) and it is $3.39/gallon. But I can only get like a 2 weeks supply (2 gallons) based on the dates, so I have to pay the local price the rest of the month, which I hate. But the commissary is a 50 mile round trip, so there is no cost savings if I go more than once a month.

 

krissyh21

It depends on where I get it but I got it at BJ's today for 2.37 a gallon

...and to answer Schmoodles ?? - I had to look up the cost for DS baby book too. The only reason I knew the price is because I went shopping today and compare BJ's prices to the stop and shop prices to see where the better deal is before buying.