George Shirley wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
>> I was in Costco yesterday and came across a strange
>> sight ... palettes of milk sitting outside the cooler. I did
>> a double take to see that it really was milk without it clicking that
>> something was odd about it. Odd enough for me to think, is that
>> really milk? if that makes any sense.
>>
>> It's the new square containers. Seems they cost less to ship, and
>> use less labor somehow, saving some 15 cents
>> a container.
>> nancy
> Let's see, when I was a boy in the forties and fifties, milk came in
> round glass bottles, a little later it came in square waxed cardboard
> containers, still later yet it came in round plastic or square plastic
> containers. (Well, sort of square, the squares had rounded corners.)
> Now it's going back to square containers.
>
> It's a conspiracy by the big milk producers to get us to buy more
> milk. Yeah, that's it.

I don't know why I didn't think of that! Of course that's it. The
old milk just won't do anymore, too old fashioned. Heh.

nancy