Instead of welcoming the full page advertisements by Dutch Lady and Marigold in The Star yesterday and the distribution of 250,000 packs of free milk as mentioned in the former's advertisement, I feel they should have reduced their milk prices instead.
Yesterday, I was at a Tesco supermarket, looking out for fresh milk and was really disappointed at the ever rising prices. Eg. its own brand fresh milk was selling at Rm5.29! Not so long ago, I used to be able to get it at Rm4.79 and before that Rm4.19 and so on. We used to be able to buy Dutch Lady fresh milk at around Rm3.00 but that seemed so distant now. Yesterday, it was Rm5.49 at Tesco. Sometimes, if lucky, there are some at clearance sale within a few days expiry at between half to two-third of normal prices.
Again, not so long ago, YB Tony Pua pointed out the scarcity of real milk because what we get are mostly Evaporated Creamer instead of Evaporated Milk, Condensed Creamer instead of Condensed Milk, because it was a way of side-stepping price controls because of rising costs of milk.
Yet, we have money spent by milk packers and distributors running into hundreds of thousands to publicise the drinking of milk! I wish they would pass on those money spent on reducing the prices instead.
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