Ah, that sort of thing!! Yes, I have noticed in recent weeks that my orange juice doesn't seem to be available in the store in gallons anymore. Instead, the containers are more like 2.5 quarts - and for roughly the same price the gallons used to be.

But I seem to recall that consumers were warned several months ago that due to the freeze in the orange groves last winter, and the drought in the Midwest last summer that devastated the corn crops -- and thus was slated to bump up the price of feed for livestock as well as any other products which rely on corn for their processing -- that food prices would be forced to go up. Simple economics, of course.

So I guess instead of raising the prices, manufacturers have chosen to keep the prices the same and reduce the amount of product received for the money...

At least that's my guess as to what is going on... anyone have hard facts?