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Why is it that Kroger's is always having sales on things I need, but it turns out to be ridiculous sales like 10 half-gallons of milk for $10? Who needs 10 half-gallons of milk? Who has room to store 10 half-gallons of milk? Who can drink 10 half-gallons of milk before they go bad? Do the McCaugheys live around here? Yes, I would like a sale on canned mushrooms or ice cream or something, but 10 pints of ice cream for $10? Yeah, maybe if I only ate ice cream for every meal, I could... mmmm, ice cream for every meal. I bet I could find room in my freezer for all of that and eat it all and it would be such a good investment because it's on SALE and... what were we talking about?
srah - Tuesday, 22 August 2006 - 5:21 PM
Tags: ice cream, shopping
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Anonymous - August 23, 2006 - 7:19 AM - ℓ
If you ever had a pack of teen-age boys in the house you would know the value of 10 half-gallons for $10. But you are young, life happens and then you know. And yeah, it's a buck a piece and they've been marketing that way for a few years now.
Cheryl - August 24, 2006 - 12:13 PM - ℓ
My parents have a freezer in our basement just for storing those 9 extra gallons of milk and extra loafs of bread (although, I don't think they've ever actually bought 9 extra gallons, but maybe a couple).
Cheryl - August 25, 2006 - 8:24 AM - ℓ
They do. And, once, when my friends and I went camping, we froze the milk to keep the cooler cold. Although it never unfroze, because it sat under some steaks.
Sarah. - August 29, 2006 - 11:39 AM - ℓ
Freezing milk is no good.
It doesn't spoil, true. But it messes it up somehow. For one thing, you have to deal with ice chunkies, and they're gross. And then there are like the remnants of ice chunkies. They look and taste like ice chunkies, even when the milk is quite warm.
Freezing bread is better, though somehow it's always sort of stiff when you bring it back out. Never quite the same.
I believe that the sales are applied to the number of items you actually buy. So it would be 1 gallon for $1. It's just a marketing gimmick (sp) to get you to think you need to buy more.