[OldHand2018]

Yes, but I think it depends on the location. At my local grocery store in Chicago, milk has been $2 per gallon ($0.53 per liter) for years, as long as you buy 2 gallons or more. When I was in Florida for a few months, I couldn't find it for less than $3.79 per gallon ($1 per liter) anywhere.

The cheaper milk in the upper midwest tastes better too, as it all comes from Wisconsin and Indiana where the cows can feed on green grass that grows naturally because it gets plenty of rain, etc.

[llsf]

I pay $5.69 the gallon in SF at grocery store.

[AtlasBarfed]

Is there still that weird law that fixes the price of milk based on how far from Wisconsin it is?

[wyldfire]

Unlikely. The article mentions something that sounds related:

> This was in the heart of America’s dairyland by the way, to the point that federal milk pricing used to be based on how many miles away from here you were.

This sentence cites a WSJ article from 1997 [1].

BTW, California has had bigger dairy production than Wisconsin for decades [2].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB880411473424429000

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/11/01/561427862/is...

[OldHand2018]

Hey, you know you may be right - I guess I just assumed about the source of the milk. Try this out: go to Aldi [1] and choose grocery pickup for anywhere in Illinois or Indiana, and you’ll see a gallon of milk for somewhere between $1.95 and $2.50 per gallon (depending on the store location). Click on the milk and you can clearly see the “Real California Milk” label.

[1] https://www.aldi.us/en/pickup-delivery/grocery-pickup/