Cross-border shopping and young people preferring to eat cheese and yogurt are being blamed by the industry for the decline of all categories of milk sales in British Columbia.
Statistics Canada data released on Tuesday showed the cartons that were once a near-certain sight in every home are clearly on the decline — a dramatic fall in the past five years.
Products sold in B.C. such as 1% milk, for example, drained to 4.46 million litres sold in March 2014 from averages of more than 7 million litres sold per month in 2009.
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