Culture Shock - Milk $4.39/ Gallon!
 

New to TV and shocked to see grocery prices. Is there a place to get milk, eggs, bananas (basics) at reasonable prices? I pay $2.00-2.50 for milk, eggs $.99, bananas $.38,/ lb etc. Here $4.39 for milk, $1.99 eggs, $.68 bananas. Aldis, Walmart, W-D, Public, Walgreen's all the same - very high. Any other stores or gas stations that do better?

"I pay $2.00-2.50 for milk, eggs $.99, bananas $.38,/ lb"

WHERE!??!?!?

You will not find a better price on those 3 items than at Aldi anywhere locally, including Wallyworld.

Welcome to florida!

Milk and gasoline seem to be running neck and neck with eggs right behind them.

The $3000 you save by not buying heating fuel Oct thru May to keep a home in WI at a whoppin' 66 degrees will go a long way toward food staples.

A gallon of milk last us about a week...a good investment of $4.50.

I would gladly pay that rather than going thru another winter here in the Chicago area like we had last year. Oh and then there's the property taxes.

yeah and everybody thinks Publix is so great-the prices for food here suck big time-give me a WaWa for my gas and a Wegman's for my groceries and I will show Floridians heaven!!!

What you will pay for your air conditioning and water for your lawn will make up for it

The only stores I have I know of that would have prices that low would be an ethnic supermarket. I know there are not any in the Villages and not sure about the surrounding areas. I am talking about a true (so IMO you are usually just buying basics because you do not need to know the language to know what you are buying) Spanish, Asian or Indian market.

Keeping it simple Food prices are going up and up. Incomes are not gaining and the CPI doe not take into account rises in food or gas prices so little if any bump to pensions or social security. And we haven't even talked about the big bumps in health care premiums.

American Farm Bureau Federation�s Latest Semi-Annual Marketbasket Survey Shows Rising
 

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 2, 2014 � "Shoppers are paying slightly more for food at the grocery store compared to the first half of 2014. Higher retail prices for beef and pork products such as ground chuck and bacon, among other foods, resulted in a slight increase in the American Farm Bureau Federation�s latest Semi-Annual Marketbasket Survey."

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"According to USDA, Americans spend just under 10 percent of their disposable annual income on food, the lowest average of any country in the world. A total of 87 shoppers in 27 states participated in the latest survey, conducted in September."

Old news.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/bu...sure.html?_r=0

Who drinks milk anymore? Milk is for babies and calves.

Men: Dairy raises your risk for prostate cancer.

Women: Dairy does not prevent or cure osteoporosis.

Look at any dairy product in the supermarket. Do you see anything that says, "helps build strong bones"? No, because there's no proof of it and therefore the FDA will not allow that statement to be made.

To bad it doesn't trickle down to the farmers pocket

They warned us on NBC news that milk prices would go up since California has had terrible drought and fires. California is one of the leading producers of milk.

And yes we do drink milk and eat ice cream VPL. deeeeeeep breaths.