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| The last one with milk for a while. |
In a rare move, Byrne Dairy became the latest retailer to be short of something. This time, it's their glass bottles, but rather being able to get milk into them. I went to my two usual locations on Thompson Road (NY 635) and in East Syracuse (NY 290) and they were all out. Even if I went all the way to Gates, Endicott, Central Square or North Utica, it'd be no different. Corporate said the equipment had to undergo maintenance and would not have everything back to normal until the end of the month at best. I enquired as a customer rather than a journalist going into a right panic. We've all learnt the hard way the past five years that things just don't replenish overnight. Pittsford Farms in Monroe County, Stew Leonards (which we just covered), and several others around the country still offer glass. In other areas, people may assume it went away generations ago. Milkmen were even in business in the UK as recently as thirty years ago with the smaller glass bottles that the over-60s grew up with. Also, glass is naturally BPA-free, reusable, washable (dishwasher safe in the bottom rack), and keeps plastic and waxed paper out of the ecosystem, which is Gretas way. I'll have to settle for plastic until it comes back, and maybe even get it at other stores. No one else is reporting this nor are the company themselves. It's up to me.
