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SMS wrote:
On 1/26/2011 2:57 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
Ice cream has survived as a half gallon for decades, at least 6 that I'm
aware of. It is more costly to pack the smaller cartons. A hundred
gallon batch of ice cream used to take 200 containers. Now it takes 266
containers for that batch. Given that the physical size and material is
changed little, the smaller containers won't be that much cheaper. As a
consumer, I'm being made to pay for that waste of resources.
When I was in Florida, I was in Publix supermarket, and they make a big
deal of the fact that their store brand ice cream cartons are still 1/2
gallon. It was also pretty good ice cream, especially now that Breyer's
has decontented their product and is adding the same additives that the
cheaper brands have been using for a long time.
http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/clothing-clothing-accessories-stores-stores/279631-1.html
Unfortunately, we have no supermarkets that are the caliber of Publix in
California, and they probably aren't going to expand out here,
especially since the cashiers in the big supermarket chains here are
unionized and make a living wage (last time I heard it was around $17 an
hour).
You can live on $17/hr in CA???
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