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

firsttogo · August 2011

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 · August 2011

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 · August 2011

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 · August 2011

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

naflmj · August 2011

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 · August 2011

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 · August 2011

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 · August 2011

1 gallon of organic milk $5.89 a gallon.

LisaMarisa · August 2011

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

LIAngel · August 2011

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

togo · August 2011

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 · August 2011

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 · August 2011

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 · August 2011

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 · August 2011

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 · August 2011

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 · August 2011

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 · August 2011

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 · August 2011

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 · August 2011

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.

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