Canadian shoppers are increasingly skipping the dairy aisle at the grocery store.
Sales of milk fell in June by more than 3 per cent from the same month a year earlier, Statistics Canada said on Wednesday, marking the eighth consecutive monthly decline of what was once a staple of the Canadian diet. According to the federal government, per-capita consumption of milk has fallen by 18 per cent to 74 litres a year between 1995 and 2014, amid changes to the palate and makeup of Canadian society.
“It’s been going down for at least 25 or 30 years,” said Sylvain Charlebois, a business professor at Ontario’s University of Guelph.
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