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The Price of a Door Step Pint!
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The Dairy crest milkmen I think are franchise workers. I don't think they work, as such, for Dairy Crest direct but are self-employed (I think.) They buy the round off Dairy crest. Well that's how it was at my dads old dairy crest yard. I remember that one worker was heavily into debt because he wasn't selling enough milk and not collecting his debts. He had books to keep. Selling milk was his business, his livelihood, not just his job.
If someone can tell me different then I would appreciate it as it is about 3 years since my dad was made redundant from there, and he was a yardsman not a roundsman so he WAS employed direct by Dairy crest.0 -
quickstepqueen wrote:The Dairy crest milkmen I think are franchise workers.
Looks like you're correct:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/2907175.stmStompa0 -
I feel sorry for the decline of the good old milkround but its just too expensive. I don't like people knowing when I'm out (ie when we cancel the milk to go on holiday). I have switched totally to powdered milk now and every thime I finish a box I've saved £2.27. I paid £1.78 for 750g box in asda which makes 15 pints, I tried it on the family without them knowing and no one knew the difference so I owned up, its great for cooking, cereals and tea and coffee. if you make it up to a pint its just like proper milk IMO0
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FWIW my first DD payment to Dairy Crest has happened. I'm not very impressed. According to the leaflet they sent me:
"Your milk person will leave you an itemised invoice on the last Friday/Saturday of each month and this will be the amount debited from your Bank/Building Society account on the 10th day of the following month."
It was actually taken on the 6th.....Stompa0 -
Our Dairy Crest milk price has just gone up to 52p a pint!:eek: but we've had the same milkman for the 23 years we've lived here and he has to do 4 rounds every day to make enough to live on. He used to deliver quite late in the morning but after I started work and told him I was coming home to sour milk in the summer, he altered his route so that our milk was delivered before I went to work. He also rang one of my neighbours, who had baby twins, to warn her he wouldn't be round that day as his float had broken down! So we stick with our milkman even though the supermarket milk is cheaper.0
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I would buy my milk from the milkman, but my local Tesco Extra sells 6 pints for £1.50. I can buy it as and when I need it. I simply cannot justify paying 50p a pint from the milkman, and then having the hassle of having milk delivered when possibly I have enough in the fridge to last me the day, as our milk consumption can flucturate wildly in our house! (depending on whether cereal or toast is the favourite of the day!) Also, paying for it as and when needed is not such a big shock as seeing the amount for the month come out of my bank in one go!MFW 2011 challenge - Aim: Overpay £414.26 a month/£5,000 a year. Overpayment Total to date: £414.26:jMortgage start 28/9/07 £46,217.00 :TMortgage balance as of 25/05/11 £24,490.58 :T
Interest saved as of 25/05/11: £2,849.84 Projected term reduction as of 25/05/11: 9 years 11 months0
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