Supermarkets, Stop the Gouging - Milk Prices Should Tumble $1
| dc.creator | Cotterill, Ronald | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T19:12:42Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T07:59:07Z | |
| dc.description | WITH THE HELP of four University of Connecticut graduate students, two weeks ago I surveyed milk prices in 195 grocery stores in southern New England and neighboring parts of New York. The average price for milk in Providence supermarkets was $3.03 a gallon (the average prices for the major Providence grocery stores appear in the accompanying table). Currently, dairy farmers are suffering through the lowest prices in 25 years: $1.06 a gallon in October. Adding insult to injury, retail and farm milk prices have been near these levels for a year. According to Massachusetts Department of Agriculture estimates, the cost of processing milk and retailing it in supermarkets is less than $1 a gallon; so retail prices should be $2 or less. What we have is a virulent case of price-gouging by supermarkets and, most likely, the dairy processors (not the farmers) that supply them. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.169455 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/169455/files/ip32.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/169455 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/594369 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/169455 | |
| dc.title | Supermarkets, Stop the Gouging - Milk Prices Should Tumble $1 | |
| dc.type | Text |