Meijer raised the price of its store-brand half-gallon chocolate milk by 50% from $1.99 to $2.99, drawing customer criticism over eliminating a key loss leader.

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        "excerpt": "Meijer is not a big grocery store? Costco and their help in the removal of Robinson-Patman Act is the reason why we go there, because it's by far cheaper than everywhere else. $1.99 sugar milk is probably not \"quality\" no matter how much you like it. If that's their \"loss leader\" it would just be a weird...",
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      "[post] Meijer brand chocolate milk has been $1.99 for a while... Today I go to get my weekly fix of chocolate milk and the price has been raised to $2.99 (for the same half gallon).",
      "[post] $1.99 chocolate milk was your $1.50 hotdog 🌭 combo Meijer. This is a 50% price increase. Bad business decision."
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