[mikeyouse]

These odd local anecdotes are so silly - the benefit of having a Federal bureaucracy tracking prices is that they keep detailed records. Here's the nominal price of a gallon of milk over the last 25 years:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000709112

The average in Feb 2020 was $3.19/gallon. Today it's $4.15/gallon. So roughly 30% increase since then. The average cost of a gallon of milk since the mid 1990s has never been below $2.40/gallon so maybe that $1.35 you paid was a result of a panic during the early pandemic?