Milk

Yesterday I took Valerie with me so she wouldn’t go stir crazy (apparently it wasn’t sufficient).  We picked up mail in Easton.  Then we went to Market Basket in Taunton, inspired by having looked at a flier and seen butternut for 39 cents a pound, and some other good sales, and not being sure whether it had ended.  Even if it had, there are usually bargains, and walking the whole store made it a bigger outing for Val.

Butternut was no longer 39.  It was 49!  Amazing!  It’s normally 99 in supermarkets, and at Lambert’s it’s 69, which makes it worth getting there normally if there’s reason to be in the area anyway.  I got $5 worth, which would have been $10 at Hannaford.

The big story is not that, or the butter for $1.99, or the 85% burger for $1.99, or whatever.

It’s the milk.  When I ever saw that whole milk was $2.99 a gallon, I grabbed two, even though we’d just opened a fresh one that morning.  I’d been impressed enough that Stop & Shop had it for $3.69 the night before, when I ran in there for milk and bread as a matter of convenience.  $3.69 was the price of the 1% and 2% at Market Basket, so it was not an across the board thing.

By comparison, I buy it at Wal-Mart for $3.20-something or $3.30-something, and at BJ’s for I believe about $3.29.  Hannaford’s is the best, and convenient, but $3.99.  Even Cumberland Farms is 4 cents lower, and is better milk than it was years ago.

$2.99 a gallon!  That’s just amazing.

Posted by on 01/12 at 10:48 AM

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