Here in northern Oklahoma, it’s usually a little under $4 a gallon. (It’s cheaper at Aldi; and the DG in our town). This isn’t exactly dairy country. (You’d think it would be, being cattle country, but I guess when calves are weaned, they just breed the cow over and over, til it’s worn out).But then, neither is Texas, where it’s about $2. Oklahoma has very few grocery store options, though. Homeland and United, and Harps are owned by the same outfit, and specialize in small towns (and high prices). Pyramid Foods and Country Mart (owned by the same concern as Save Alot and Price Cutters, only much more expensive), and an Oklahoma only group, Reasors, also very expensive. We do have a few Aldi’s, the closest one from us being 20 miles away. We drink a lot of milk, so DG is the place I go for it, for $2.50 a gallon, “on sale”, now, in our town only, for the past couple of years.
What is it about Oklahoma that fosters price gouging for common things? There is a whole list of things that begin with: “What is it about Oklahoma that _______? Other examples, car insurance, house insurance, medical insurance, even new roads just fall apart, medical care in rural areas is all but absent, etc. But we have a pot store on just about every corner and a casino on the ones without pot stores. who hooo.
We grew up here and went away for more than 30 years to work. What we came back to is a disappointment. Maybe we grew and Oklahoma didn’t. Not sure but I am sure it is a disappointment but here we are and we haven’t mustered the energy to move and am not sure where to go that is worth the trouble.
Walmart for groceries weekly, drive 25 miles or more to Aldi every-other-week, internet for a whole lot of supplies and repair parts. I’d trade local but I can’t buy what they don’t have and that is most things I need. Just amazing that Tractor Supply is always out of so much of what most people buy. Just about every trip there results in what I can make do with instead of what I really need. Trying to trade local is like Lucy, Charlie Brown and the football. Every time I give them another chance they jerk the football away!
United and Homeland are Harps? I did not know that. What is the name of the parent group? I thought Harps was employee owned. What about Super Saver?
BTW, not trying to start an argument here but a little research shows:
United is owned by Albertson’s
Homeland is owned by Homeland Acquisition company out of OKC and has 79 stores (Many stores were once Safeway before they sold out in the region)
Harp’s is employee owned and HQ in Springdale, Arkansas and is supplied by Associated Wholesale Grocers out of Kansas City. Harp’s has good stuff but can be a little pricey.
We like Aldi the best for most stuff. All our beef is grass fed and grain finished here at the farm and we eat out of the garden about half the year.