No need to cry over spilled milk. In Hawaii, just pouring the stuff can make us wince. Milk is expensive here.
We all know the cost of life in Hawaii can be exorbitant but it's not always clear how and why local prices shake out the way they do. When it comes to groceries, you'll almost always pay more — and often far more — on Oahu than you will in Manhattan, another pricey island where the cost of living is about twice the national average, according to the Council for Community and Economic Research.
But there are staples that cost nearly twice as much in Hawaii as they do in New York City. Take a gallon of regular non-organic milk. It costs $3.29 for the generic brand at Whole Foods in New York City, but you shell out $6.29 for a gallon of Meadow Gold at Foodland on Oahu.
Step up a level, to the gallon of organic milk at Whole Foods in Hawaii, and it can cost as much as a bottle of wine.
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