Everything is getting more expensive and harder to find. Specifically:
Milk prices are rising
Fuel Prices are rising
Plastic Resin (for bottles) has risen over 200%
Labor costs are higher to retain high quality drivers and we are having to pay more.
Lease prices for our warehouse are increasing due to being tied to inflation
Auto Parts for fixing trucks are dramatically increasing in price (and becoming less available)
I have been in this industry for 15 years – and I have never seen our costs go up like this so dramatically and never experienced such difficulty getting basic items to keep the business functioning.
Due to these issues and several other realities – we will need to take our first price increases since we started in March of 2020. Milk prices will be adjusted 10% (From $2.50 to $2.75) and a variety of other products will need some pricing adjustments due to our vendors raising our prices based on their costs. We hope you will be understanding and we never like to do this but in order to continue to stay in business for the long term – these increases are necessary. These price increases will take effect starting on 9/6.
We appreciate your understanding and we will re-evaluate if/when prices return back to historical averages.
Thanks,
Samantha and Andrew Stolworthy
