Tillamook vs Hannaford (Page 2): You get what you pay for. We never used to have Tillamook Dairy products here in GA but we do now. Their ice cream is wonderful. Try the caramel toffee...

jimvanells Loc: Augusta, GA

You get what you pay for. We never used to have Tillamook Dairy products here in GA but we do now. Their ice cream is wonderful. Try the caramel toffee crunch, you will get addicted.

SkyKing Loc: Thompson Ridge, NY

jerryc41 wrote:

I bought Tillamook and Hannaford ice cream yesterd... (show quote)

…Jerry, Jerry, Jerry…you are going to like me for this…Jane’s Ice Cream…307 Wall Street…Kingston, NY 12401…my favorite is their vanilla and also coconut almond…I usually get mine at Adams Fairacre Farms…but I’m not adverse to stopping by their shop when I’m in Kingston…

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

dustie wrote:

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Retailers buy most of their products from various suppliers. Does Nikon have a battery factory? Does Walmart grow its own chickens? Pricing is so complicated that no one really understands it. We know two things about pricing: the consumer thinks prices are too high; the seller thinks prices are too low.

ecblackiii Loc: Maryland

jerryc41 wrote:

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Tillamook ice cream has to be shipped in from the plant in Oregon. Lower priced competitors are likely local.

BebuLamar

jerryc41 wrote:

Retailers buy most of their products from various suppliers. Does Nikon have a battery factory? Does Walmart grow its own chickens? Pricing is so complicated that no one really understands it. We know two things about pricing: the consumer thinks prices are too high; the seller thinks prices are too low.

Distance has nohing to do with it. Temu price is really low and they are shipped from China. Buy something made locally would be a lot more expensive.

ecblackiii Loc: Maryland

BebuLamar wrote:

Distance has nohing to do with it. Temu price is really low and they are shipped from China. Buy something made locally would be a lot more expensive.

TEMU does not ship ice cream from China. If it did you could not afford it.

BebuLamar

ecblackiii wrote:

TEMU does not ship ice cream from China. If it did you could not afford it.

I used to live very close to Oberweis ice cream and its ice cream is good but it's $10 a quart and they made it right there.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

ecblackiii wrote:

TEMU does not ship ice cream from China. If it did you could not afford it.

I'm not sure I would want to eat ice cream that was shipped from China, free shipping or not. 😁

China has a totally different economic system. That's why they can sell an item for $5.00 and send it to the US by air for free.

About a month ago, I posted about the RC bulldozer I bought from Temu for $22 with free shipping. It was sent by air, and it was identical to one sold on Amazon for $44. I gave it to a woman with grandchildren.

ecblackiii Loc: Maryland

BebuLamar wrote:

I used to live very close to Oberweis ice cream and its ice cream is good but it's $10 a quart and they made it right there.

So? Oberweis doesn't sell nationwide. Higher price can also be affected by the inefficiencies of a small volume producer and the particular profit margin it seeks. A large ice cream cone at Dairy Queen now costs more than $5. But some people will pay it.

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

jerryc41 wrote:

Retailers buy most of their products from various suppliers. Does Nikon have a battery factory? Does Walmart grow its own chickens? Pricing is so complicated that no one really understands it. We know two things about pricing: the consumer thinks prices are too high; the seller thinks prices are too low.

Watch Tillamook ice cream prices in your area around the end of this year.
Last March they made a notice they will be opening an ice cream production facility in Decatur, Illinois in late 2024, to shorten the shipping logistics to outlets in the eastern states.
They are advertising job openings for that facility now.
There is a PDF file in this page with the news release --
-- https://decaturil.gov/tillamook-announces-new-decatur-ice-cream-plant-at-former-prairie-farms/

Hmmmm.......will that mean lower prices for you?.......or higher prices, because there will be the need to fund the expansion costs of the start-up in Illinois?

ecblackiii Loc: Maryland

jerryc41 wrote:

Retailers buy most of their products from various suppliers. Does Nikon have a battery factory? Does Walmart grow its own chickens? Pricing is so complicated that no one really understands it. We know two things about pricing: the consumer thinks prices are too high; the seller thinks prices are too low.

Pricing is not at all complicated. It's simply a number that covers all costs plus a chosen profit margin.

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

I usually buy (when it's on sale) Tillamook since it is a local Oregon company. It's good stuff. So is their cheese. Especially the smoked cheddar. If anyone ever visits the Oregon Coast they need to stop at the Tillamook Cheese factory right there in the town of Tillamook. But I have to admit, they don't make Butter Pecan Ice cream quite as good as the varieties from the south, you-all.

ecblackiii Loc: Maryland

jerryc41 wrote:

I'm not sure I would want to eat ice cream that was shipped from China, free shipping or not. 😁

China has a totally different economic system. That's why they can sell an item for $5.00 and send it to the US by air for free.

About a month ago, I posted about the RC bulldozer I bought from Temu for $22 with free shipping. It was sent by air, and it was identical to one sold on Amazon for $44. I gave it to a woman with grandchildren.

$5 items are not shipped by air and the transportation is not free. Cheap items are shipped by the cheapest mode-- huge container ships, containing up to 240,000 tons (480,000,000 pounds) of accompanying items. The items portion of that transportation cost is included in the unit sales price. And it can take as long as 6 weeks for you to receive your item, depending upon when the bulk resupply is sent to America. You get what you pay for.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

dustie wrote:

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Thanks for that.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

ecblackiii wrote:

$5 items are not shipped by air and the transportation is not free. Cheap items are shipped by the cheapest mode-- huge container ships, containing up to 240,000 tons (480,000,000 pounds) of accompanying items. The items portion of that transportation cost is included in the unit sales price. And it can take as long as 6 weeks for you to receive your item, depending upon when the bulk resupply is sent to America. You get what you pay for.

If it didn't arrive by air, then it got here by a very fast boat. Of course, that was a $22 item. I have received really cheap things from China in about a week. Maybe they fill a box with lots of little things and fly them here. If something is being shipped by container ship, I imagine that would take a very long time. Aside from the travel time from China to the US, it would then have to be trucked to the east coast. Of course, a ship isn't waiting in China for my $5 item arrive so it can depart.