Where has all the skim milk gone?

[nwhiker]

Why has it become so difficult to find fat-free milk, and when I do find it, why is it almost always very close to its expiration date?

Costco has stopped selling it around me (but keep white-liquid-fake-drinks that are shelf stable in the dairly cooler, wtf is with that?). TJs is often out of ff, Safeway as well.

I bought the last qt at TJ's on Sun Aug 11. Didn't realize until I got a mouthful of bad milk in my tea on the morning of the 12th that it... expired the day I bought it. That should have been pulled.

Found a half gallon -second to last one- of Safeway's store brand last night, they were all out of Dairygold ff, which is not unusual. The milk I bought? With the furthest out expiration date? 19 Aug. The Dairygold usually lasts a bit longer.

It's really getting old. I know a lot of people swear by whole milk and the like, but I find them disgusting, the "mouth feel" of dairy fat squicks me out. I do eat butter, but not "premium" ice cream, and will not touch the higher "crème" Bries, LOL. I prefer my yogurt or skyr ff as well, though 1% is ok, and yes, I can tell the difference. It's truly a texture thing.