Just my opinion, I don't think any bait shop should sale there minnows at break even just to try to make there money on something else in the store. I like to buy minnows as cheap as anyone but i also want that person to be satisfied with what there charging so they will hopefully have minnows anytime I need them once you can't buy them close you will realize who's fault it is that no one sales them. We travel to Al pretty often in the late winter and it's like pulling teeth to find minnows from Birmingham to Pratville we have driven 25 miles one way to get 1lb of minnows break that cost out per lb. and about every fisherman will do it once he hooks to that boat. But let that local retailer charge 2.75 a dozen and where all screaming, even myself . Lol