Sell-By Date Blamed For Montana's Higher Milk Prices, Bill Would Repeal
February 11, 2015 | 1 min to read
On Feb. 3, a gallon of whole milk at the Helena Safeway cost $4.19. At the Lincoln Heights Safeway in Spokane, Washington, the same gallon of milk cost a dollar less: $3.19.
At Albertsons on North Montana Avenue in Helena, a gallon of whole milk cost $4.59 that day, and at Albertsons in Idaho Falls, Idaho it cost $2.19. In Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, a gallon of milk cost $2.89; in Cheyenne, Wyoming, it was $3.49.
The nationwide price in December 2014 (the most current data available), according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, was $3.80, the highest since 2011.
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