State stops sale of cheap milk

The Advocate ^ | January 25, 2013 | MICHELLE MILLHOLLON

[libertarian27]

If a store wants to ‘loss leader’ a product they should be able to - no matter what the product.

There are many years during Thanksgiving where turkey prices are very high, there are stores that will sell turkeys for under their cost from distributors - it’s their loss leader price to get customers to hopefully shop the rest of the store for all their holiday needs.

[scrabblehack]

Schwegmann’s was gone before Katrina...the last remnant of it was Schwegmann Bank.

The story I heard was that Schwegmann told the customers to save their receipts — when he got the law overturned, he would give the customers refunds. I don’t know if that is the 1970’s dispute or before.

[Still Thinking]

“They can sell it 6 percent over cost all day long. It’s when they sell it below cost that it becomes a problem,” Strain said.

Uh, no, it's when you poke your nose into things you don't understand and which are none of your business that it becomes a problem. Are they allowed to buy advertising? That's what they're doing by selling one or two products below their cost. They're doing their own advertising in house, and in a way that benefits the consumer instead of clogging his airwaves or mailbox.

Stores also sell milk and other perishables at lower prices when they're still good but nearing the point at which they'll have to be pulled from the shelves. If they can recover what they paid, or even most of it, that's a victory from their point of view.

If milk was the only product they sold, and they were continuously selling it at a loss, you might have reason to suspect they had some evil scheme working, but that's clearly not the case, you moron. Leave them alone!