TULSA — The dairy aisle has become home to one of the fastest growing areas of food price inflation.
Prices for milk, butter and cheese are cutting sharply into shoppers’ grocery budgets.
As consumers are battered by the higher prices, grocers and dairymen say the dairy spike isn’t benefiting them and they are unsure when prices might come back down.
“Milk has steadily risen for the last year,” said Doyle Kirk, vice president of grocery operations for the Tahlequah-based Reasor’s supermarket chain. “Milk changes prices at the beginning of the month, and it’s gone up about every month for the last six. And it goes up again the first of June.”
And that includes anything relating to dairy, from yogurt and ice cream to cheese pizza and Alfredo sauce.
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