Delivered Milk

Becles · 17 March 2005 at 10:55PM

I've been doing my bit for the local economy by having milk delivered.

However the prices have been creeping up a lot recently. At the moment I am paying £1.30 for a 2 litre carton, compared with £1.15 in the village shop for the same milk from a local dairy and £1.11 in my local Tesco for a 4 pint (which is a bit bigger!) carton.

We get 4 cartons a week delivered, so it's quite a saving when you add it up, although I appreciate I'm also paying for delivery to the door. However I pass the village shop most days and I'm a merchandiser so I'm often in or near supermarkets during the day, so it's little effort to collect my own milk.

I'm also cross as when the regular people go on holiday or are sick, the relief people always get it wrong, so I had no milk at all last Friday morning

I'm tempted to cancel the milk delivery, but I feel guilty as I know they are on a low income and depend on their customers. But I'm also penny pinching and need the money too. Decisions, decisions.......

Spendless · 17 March 2005 at 11:05PM

What do you mean by cartons Becles? The plastic containers you get in the shops? We have glass bottles still.

I have milk delivered too - not all of it but some. I started this when my eldest was young because even paying the extra for the milk meant not having to go to the shops where i might be tempted to spend money on other things.

I buy the extra milk i need at the supermarket in long-life cartons.

foreverskint · 17 March 2005 at 11:17PM

I know it costs a little more to have my milk delivered but I too can be easily tempted to buy something else in the shop thus negating any savings.

Plus theres something somforting and old fashioned about getting up in the morning and seeing my lovely fresh pint on the doorstep. My dairy often give away freebies too. Nice pint of orange juice 2 weeks ago tasted even nicer cos it was free:j

I also beleive that it helps to keep the milkman in a job and help those who really rely on doorstep deliveries. besides the supermarkets only sell cheap milk to get you in there in the first place.

Becles · 17 March 2005 at 11:32PM

It's never been delivered in bottles. It's always been in the plastic cartons with a built in handle like in the supermarkets. It's from a local dairy and they also supply the village shop.

Noozan · 17 March 2005 at 11:55PM

We get milk from the milkman - we get 2 litres in a plastic carton for 95p. Our local supermarket sells just over 2 litres (think it's 2.32 something) for £1.11 so it's not much different in price. It does mean I don't have to carry milk home and helps the local economy.

Magentasue · 17 March 2005 at 11:59PM

When I tried to find out about getting milk delivered, it worked out double the price of supermarket milk (buying the 6pt cartons). I use 4-6 pints a day so it would make a big difference. If there was only a few pence in it, I'd love to have a delivery.

mink35 · 18 March 2005 at 12:19AM

The milk for delivery to work has just gone up to 47p a pint. No wonder people switch to supermarkets!

quoia · 18 March 2005 at 2:13AM

We used to have our CO-OP milkman leave pint glass bottles until they reached 40p each a few years back.
We then found he also had 2 pint plastic "bottles" on his float for 72p.
So we changed from glass to plastic, retained the same quantity order and kept him delivering to our door.

We've never needed doorstep deliveries since we visit supermarkets frequently enough for our milk needs to be obtained there.
So when the 2 pint plastic bottles reached 80p, when they were available in Asda et al for 52p, we decided enough was enough.
We said we were sorry but his milk was about £70 a year more expensive than we needed to pay. He said he understood and didn't blame us, and in the circumstances (not being "housebound" etc.) he was surprised we hadn't done it years before. He said that he had changed gas suppliers to save half that amount (£35 per annum) only a few weeks before and this was no different.

Since then we've all but dumped ASDA, Sainsburys and the other big chains for the old cow juice purchases and buy 99% of our milk from either of 2 other places.
Second choice is an ALDI about a 1/2 mile away that does 4 pints for 99p.

Alternatively once or twice a week, when we visit my mother-in-law, there is a Asian run mini-market just around the corner where, as well as getting cheap produce like garlic, ginger, oranges, limes, spinach & cauliflowers, they also do 2 litres of milk for JUST 74p !

Our milkman now charges 82p for a 2 pint plastic bottle, we buy 2 litres for 74p.
Difficult to justify that we should still be buying from the milkman.

filigree_2 · 18 March 2005 at 3:16AM

I was put off ordering from the milkman because I knew they don't deliver till mid morning round here, and when I was working I didn't want my milk cooking on the doorstep all day. I can see where the problem lies, milkmen have so few customers that they have to cover large areas just to make a living. All that travelling means they can't deliver to ALL their customers at 4 am.

When I became a fulltime housewife I gave the local dairy a try, partly for convenience and partly because I thought traditional glass bottles were the "green" option. I was really disappointed to find that they charged 50% more than the supermarket and delivered plastic bottles. I cancelled the order after a week.

I can see how milkos are a godsend if you're housebound or live in a remote area, but I'm fully mobile and live in easy walking distance of loads of shops. It's no effort to chuck a pint of milk in the wally trolley so I'm afraid they'll have to manage without my business.

Lillibet_2 · 18 March 2005 at 8:33AM

I have never even seen a milk man in our road, although I'm sure one must cover our area if we cared to enquire. However, I buy long life 1 litre cartons in Tesco at 32p each & am happy so don't plan to change. But I have several family members in sliglhy more rural areas who swear by their milk deliveres, not least beacuse when they are away the milkman keeps an eye on the house for them, a kind of extra neighbourhood watch!

Austin_Allegro · 18 March 2005 at 10:28AM

There's definitely one round our way as the buggers wake me up at 4am sometimes with their clinking and whiney electric motors. It's a shame that it costs so much to have a milko but the fact is that they belong to an age when you had to have fresh milk every day because most people didn't have fridges to keep milk in. Even some corner shops didn't have fridges until the 70s.

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