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Originally Posted by redforever
Milk saw a big increase due to the fact that dairy producers received two increases last year. Eggs saw a big increase due to avian bird flu resulting in hundreds of thousands of chickens having to be culled. . Transportation costs are another factor due to the increase in the cost of energy as well as carbon taxes.
Those things are out of control of grocers.
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While this is true, the supply management system and the fact that milk literally gets dumped if there is excess production contributes more to these cost increases than the cost of fuel going up, as one example.