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The Price of a Door Step Pint!

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  • Whereabout in the Country are you?

    I live in Lincolnshire, a small town called Long Sutton. In between Kings Lynn and Spalding if that means anything to you :D
  • Phil3822 wrote:
    I live in Lincolnshire, a small town called Long Sutton. In between Kings Lynn and Spalding if that means anything to you :D

    Just wondered whether any of these might help :D
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  • jellyhead
    jellyhead Posts: 21,555 Forumite
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    just asked my milkman and he's with dairy crest but we can't pay by direct debit. said the only payment method is when he comes door to door.
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  • Stompa
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    jellyhead wrote:
    just asked my milkman and he's with dairy crest but we can't pay by direct debit. said the only payment method is when he comes door to door.

    Ah OK sorry, I'd wrongly assumed it was a nationwide thing.

    I'm not sure it's working too well so far. The milkman left us a bill a few days ago which said the amount would be collected by DD (this would be the first DD payment). He left us another bill this morning, so I assume he's confused that I've not left a cheque out for him as normal!
    Stompa
  • jellyhead
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    he said they did some kind of trial using the machines (i assume he meant using a debit card thing) but it didn't work out. i told him tonight that i have no cash, never thought of a cheque but neither did he. i assume he takes them though.
    52% tight
  • lil_me
    lil_me Posts: 13,186 Forumite
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    Mine is £3.80 but that was increased this year and we no longer get a daily pint. Plastic cartons (2 pints), one Tuesday, 2 Thursday and one Saturday.
    One day I might be more organised...........:confused:
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  • Yes, I felt like you, too, and signed up for Dairy Crest to try and keep the milk round alive. However, it was soooo expensive and inconvenient that I went back to the supermarket.

    The milk deliveries around here aren't every day, so they deliver two or three days' worth of milk at a time in either pint bottles or 6-pint containers. My children can't manage the 6-pinters (and I have trouble), and I found that the milk went off before I'd got to the bottom, but the pint bottles took up too much room in the fridge. With daily deliveries you could adjust your order to suit changes in usage, but that's not so easy when they come 3 times a week, and I found I was popping out for the odd pint, or throwing away milk that had gone off. Then there's the payment hassles. I found the whole thing a tiresome pain in the neck.
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  • jellyhead
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    i suppose it's okay for us because we don't use much milk, the children are lactose intolerant. so a 2 pint is enough for us. i've never bought 4 pinters from the supermarket anyway, they're much too heavy for a clumsy mare like me :o
    52% tight
  • Is Dairy Crest a franchise?
  • Stompa
    Stompa Posts: 8,354 Forumite
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    Is Dairy Crest a franchise?

    As far as I can see from this:

    http://www.dairycrest.co.uk/ourbusiness/index.asp

    I don't think so.
    Stompa
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