On Saturday, October 29, 2016 at 4:20:16 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-10-29 12:29 AM, Yes wrote:
> > Went to the grocer and noticed that the price of milk jumped about
> > twenty percent over the last two weeks. Anyone know what's going on?
> >
>
> For the last year or so milk has been relatively cheap around here for.
> It seems that the milk producers raised their prices a few months ago
> and we are now paying about 5-6% more than we were back in the spring.
> I don't drink milk and don't even use it much, so a 4 liter bag of milk
> lasts us about 2 weeks. I still buy it 4 liters at a time because is
> costs so much less per liter. It is currently about $2.80 per liter,
> $3.50 for a 2 liter carton and $4.29 for four liters.

Americans think it's rather odd to be buying a bag of milk. They cannot understand how that would work. We buy it in cartons or plastic jugs. A gallon jug of milk would cost around $5.50 over here. That's a little less then 4 liters.