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The Price of a Door Step Pint!

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  • Stompa wrote:
    It must vary depending on where you are then - or maybe you have a different type of milk which is a different price. Just had a bill from Dairy Crest myself and it was 49p per pint.

    BTW did you know that they'll now let you pay by DD?


    I'm in Milton Keynes... Where are you. And mine is Semi Skimmed. We've been paying 50p for a while!

    Thanks

    Sarah
  • Stompa
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    Sarahjovi wrote:
    I'm in Milton Keynes... Where are you. And mine is Semi Skimmed. We've been paying 50p for a while!

    I'm in Cambridge, and we have the somewhat less healthy whole milk.
    Stompa
  • Supporting the local man is all good in all but you need to remember that your family are a business too. The more you pay out, the less they have.

    Simple fact is, if supermarkets are selling it cheaper (and for milk they sell at a loss!) than small local businesses, then small businesses need to adapt or go under. You shouldn't be subsidising a business that can't compete.

    Difficult to compete with cheap foreign imports, especially from certain EU countries who subsidise their home farmers.
    It's all good in all saying farmers don't make enough money and should get more, but I am sorry, they are sitting on land and farm houses with the value going way above the £million pound mark.

    What do you suggest they do? Who would buy a farm these days when the average income for a farm worker is £13,000 p.a.?
    Many farmers are subsidised. I dont see why we should be carry people who can't compete in the global market.

    Actually, in this country they're not - not in the way that farmers in France are subsidised. But then most French people don't buy fresh food in supermarkets, so home grown food has plenty of outlets and plenty of customers.
    As far as I am concerned the supermarkets can run these farmers into the ground if it means I get cheaper products.

    It will all be imported then. So it won't be as fresh and you won't know what standards were used by the farmer who grew it.
    A decade or two ago they were ripping us off with their prices, now supermarkets have pushed the prices down so why should we pay more for something we can get cheaper now?

    Not quite. Supermarkets subsidise the price of food from the profits they make on sales of white goods and financial services. They don't pay our farmers a decent price for their produce. That's why small, local farmers sell at the farm gate or to local shops. Just about the only farms that can afford to supply the supermarkets are agri-businesses using intensive farming methods ... not farms at all (there are some exceptions, but not many).
    If they weren't making money they would sell up and then price of milk would naturally rise. But I haven't seen milk rise above inflation so realistically they are making money but they like to whine because they want more, which is fair enough, but I'm not about to listen to it.

    You're not listening, are you :p Farmers are being paid less than it actually costs to produce a pint of milk. The only profit that's being made is by the supermarket you worship.
    If you want to start feelling sorry for people, look at your shoes and know that the person that made them probably didn't get more than a £1 for it, so start off with paying them a decent wage before looking at rich farmland owners driving their 4x4 and living in 5 or 6 bedroom farm houses.

    You really don't live in a farming community, do you?
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  • at the moment I pay 49p a pint, I have 3 pints of semi, 1 pint of organic at 64p, cheese 59p and a £1 stamp and an occasional box of broken biscuits.
    My OH has always had a milkman and when we moved in together we transfered the order and added bits. (His Mum doesn't have Dairy). At the moment our milkman arrives between 2 and 6. We are going to keep the milk deliveries when me move and will extend it when our baby is able to drink cows milk.
    My parents used to have a milkman when i was small, but cancelled it as we got older, they now drink longlife Skimmed milk in cartons (Yuck)

    Miche
  • We pay 51p a pint from Dairy Crest. It was nicer when we had a local independent dairy and a man who we knew - called Ernie would you believe! - who retired, and the company sold to Dairy Crest.

    We get 5 pints a week, delivered early mornings. I would be very upset if it was delivered during the night, especially these warm humid nights we've been having, and I would cancel if that was the case.

    For me, it's convenience. We'd have to buy and store a lot more milk with the supermarket shopping - we don't go to the supermarket more often than we have to.

    I agree with quickstepqueen above.

    Margaret
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  • jellyhead
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    i don't go to the supermarket every day and the local shop costs more than the ilkman. buying from the milkman works well for us although i probably wouldn't have thought of it if he hadn't come door to door asking people to save his round. if he did a bad job i'd cancel though, but he doesn't. he delivers early morning so it's not on the step too long and he puts it behind a flowerpot in the shade. when he collects money on a friday he spends ages talking to bored pensioners, he's a nice chap.
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  • hjb123
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    I think the milkman does a great job - getting up at unearthly hours come rain, hail, snow - whatever the weather! He is also valuable in crime prevention and care of the elderly too - noting anything out of the ordinary to the relelvant people.

    I dont get from the milkman though...........we get it straight from the cow - live on a farm
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  • I have a deep loathing of supermarkets and never buy what I can get from a better source, especially if I can buy direct from the grower/producer.

    But I'm lucky to have a local dairy that still does doorstep deliveries, at around 5am irrespective of the weather. Even the relief milkman sticks to that time. Best is, I only pay 46p a pint.
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  • What an interesting thread and read. I must say, I will now make an effort to find a local farm selling produce where I can see the conditions. I live in a rural area so it should not be to hard I hope.
  • Phil3822 wrote:
    What an interesting thread and read. I must say, I will now make an effort to find a local farm selling produce where I can see the conditions. I live in a rural area so it should not be to hard I hope.

    Whereabout in the Country are you?
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