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On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 10:20:18 +1100, "Rod Speed"
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"Julie Bove" wrote in message
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"Logan MacEwens" wrote in message
news I shop every week where I sometimes run out of cream near the end of the
week.
So I figured I'd stock evaporated and condensed milk, but they change
the
taste of the coffee and, 90% of the can gets wasted because I only need
one shot or two until I go out and buy cream again (which can't be
stocked).

Then I had the bright idea of stocking powdered milk!

Sure, it sucks as a product, but for emergencies it should work, right?
Guess what?

The PRICE of powdered milk is far more than fresh milk!
Why?

Generally crap costs less than the real thing, right?
So why is powdered milk (admittedly, it's crap), more EXPENSIVE than
fresh milk?

I don't get it.
Do you?

Think about it. How long would they have to dehydrate it for to get it
to
powder? I have no idea but that would use electricity. Dried foods are
always more expensive than fresh.

But powdered milk used to be cheaper than fresh milk, presumably
because they didn't have to move it in refrigerated trucks etc once
made, so the question is why has the price ratio changed now ?

Regular milk got cheaper.

I don't believe that.

Refrigeration is the standard now not the exception.

Still costs significantly more to cart the milk from where
its produced to where it is consumed in refrigerated trucks.
And here, it is carted much further too. There are damned
few local dairys left anymore, its carted for hundreds of
miles now and didn't used to be.