The price of butter is out of whack. Some brands cost over $7 per pound, which is 50 percent more than last year when the average price was about $3.50 per pound at our area supermarkets like Hannaford’s, Shaw’s, Whole Foods (for store brand) and Market Basket, the latter offering the best price deals for these sticks of gold. Incidentally Shaw’s is one of the most expensive sources for butter, just under the average whopping price at Whole Food’s butter aisle. For example, Vermont Creamery butter half-pound package costs over $6 at Whole Foods whereas Walmart sells it for $2.98 for 8 ounces, and picking it up at Shaw’s would set you back $3.99. Hannaford and Market Basket don’t carry Vermont Creamery butter.
Cabot butter at Market Basket, a relative
Currently Cabot Butter and Land O Lakes are well over $5 per pound, about $2 more than six months ago, Cabot is generally less expensive than LOL. The reason for butter price bloat manufacturers claim is that milk production is more costly than ever, and labor shortages are to blame too. I don’t necessarily buy this excuse. Still, I guess it’s a fact of life. Why, for example, is Kate’s Butter, which is made locally from their own cows who graze on Maine’s farm fields, way above its price from a year ago?
