Like Milk? It’s $4.59 in Hawaii

Our vacation was over, and I was sitting in a plane on the runway at LAX reading that at $2.73 per gallon, California milk prices are the highest in the nation [“State Court Allows Sale of Unenriched Milk,” Aug. 10].

I couldn’t wait to get home and dash to the nearest supermarket to buy a gallon of milk for under $3 per gallon. Much to my dismay, milk in my grocer’s dairy case was the normal price of $4.59 per gallon. Did my state secede from the union during my 10-day absence? Californians do not pay the highest prices for milk in the nation, maybe just in the contiguous 48 states. I don’t know what the going rate is in Alaska, but in Hawaii we dream of the day when we can purchase a gallon of milk for less than $3.

STEVEN ROBINOW

Honolulu

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