cost of milk in Tesco

asbokid

geordie_joe wrote: »

Hang on, isn't that the same price as Iceland? I buy 4 pints for £1 in Iceland every fortnight. It's been £1 for 4 pints for a very long time in Iceland.

Sure.. but in Tesco if you want four pints, you pay £1.49.. Fancy eight pints? Then cough up £2.98.

But the confused and cash-trapped shopper, ever rooting for a bargain, blows out on twelve pints for £3.00. Same price as Iceland, he tells himself.

Of course he never uses all 12 pints before it goes icky.

Another dumbass blow-out "deal" courtesy of Tesco plc and its panel of Tavistock-trained consumer psychologists.

Westvleteren

Originally Posted by kt26
I hope the price increase is passed on to the dairy farmers,

And what if it isn't? What if Tesco are keeping all the increase for themselves, and their shareholders? Would you still be happy to pay a good rate per litre if it is going to Tesco and not the farmers?
Like I say I hope the price increase is passed on, If they are keeping it for themselves then shame on them!


for years they have been underpaid per litre

So they say, but for years they have been complaining the supermarkets won't buy small or odd shaped veg and fruit. Hoping to con people like you into thinking that if the supermarkets don't buy it, it goes to waste and they get no money for it.
Sorry but what has odd shaped veg got to do with it? There will plent of veg that does fit the bill in order to make a profit. A pint of milk is a pint of milk.

and many have gone out of business.

So they keep saying, but I looked into figures a couple of years ago and it was all a con. I would be interested to see your evidence that it is a con.

I don't mind paying a good rate per litre.

As I said above, would you be happy to pay the increase if Tesco were keeping it all?Probably not, if they were keeping it all to themselves

I would hate to work 24/7 and continually make a loss.

Farmers don't work 24/7, and they don't continually make a loss, if they did they would soon be out of business.

What they do is tell us they get paid by the supermarkets less than it cost them to produce a litre of milk. But don't mention the grants they get from the government and Eu for producing milk, leaving the edges of the fields wild and many other things like not planting crops on lakes and golf courses.
There is no denying they get these grants. I think you will agree with me here in that, this procedure is a bit of a farce. Years ago they where given grants to remove hedges and produce more food, then given grants to replace the removed hedges and produce less food. I reckon soon enough they will be offered new grants to produce more food again due to world shortages. This annoys me.

Posts like yours make me annoyed.
Posts like your make me annoyed too. You have no way of knowing if tesco are going to pass on any of the increase to the farmers, but you do say you hope they will. Then you pick on the Op on the basis that they are depriving the farmers of the increase.

Agreed. I have no way of knowing if the increase will be passed on. I don't think I picked on the OP, if it came across like that then I apologise.

geordie_joe

geordie_joe wrote: »

Hang on, isn't that the same price as Iceland? I buy 4 pints for £1 in Iceland every fortnight. It's been £1 for 4 pints for a very long time in Iceland.

asbokid wrote: »

Sure.. but in Tesco if you want four pints, you pay £1.49.. Fancy eight pints? Then cough up £2.98.

But we aren't talking about buying 4 pints or 8 pints, we are talking about buying 3 x 4 pint bottles.

asbokid wrote: »

But the confused and cash-trapped shopper, ever rooting for a bargain, blows out on twelve pints for £3.00. Same price as Iceland, he tells himself.

Which is correct, 3 x 4 pints in Iceland is £3, and with the offer in Tesco 3 x 4 Pints is £3.

asbokid wrote: »

Of course he never uses all 12 pints before it goes icky.

Of course he will, he may be confused, but he/she is a lot smarter than you.......he/she knows you can freeze milk.

asbokid wrote: »

Another dumbass blow-out "deal" courtesy of Tesco plc and its panel of Tavistock-trained consumer psychologists.

It may be dumbass to you, but those of us who can think can understand it. And most of us will take advantage of it.

I expect you think it's a dumbass deal because you thought you couldn't take advantage of it, because you can't use that much milk before it goes icky, and never knew you can freeze it.

Westvleteren

Snowy_Owl wrote: »

I'm sorry if my original post has upset people. It is the hike on price that shocked me in the space of a few days - if it had been another product, I would've just as shocked/surprised.

Like I said in my previous post i didn't mean to pick on you, it wasn't intended and I apologise.

asbokid

SailorSam wrote: »

We all like to get a bargain but kt26 has a right to put in her two'penneth.
It's a well known fact that the big supermarkets have a strangle hold on their suppliers, not just milk but everything they sell. Ok we'll never know how much is going back to the farmer, but it's hard to say they don't deserve a fair price for their labour.

it's wrong that the entire farming industry is now living on state benefits, albeit very comfortably in the case of robber-land barons, like the Tory Environment and Fisheries Minister, Richard Benyon MP.

Englefield House, ancestral home of Tory agriculture minister, Richard Benyon.

The Tory MP has received £3m in EU agricultural grants for his 20,000-acre Englefield Estate.

The Tory Government recently imposed a gagging order forbidding disclosure
of the names of British land-barons who thrive on EU agro-grants.

Elsewhere the little people share money-saving tips on grocery shopping.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1360998/Wealthy-minister-earns-2m-EU-farm-subsidies-department-tried-cover-up.html

http://farmsubsidy.org/

pompeyfaith

Would it not be a case of too much of the stuff being processed, ok the cows have to be milked, but if tesco was not doing 12 for £3 it would be wasted.

Are we exporting enough or indeed importing too much,

yorks808

I am rather disappointed that they have put up the price of the creamfield 2ltr bottle milk from 75p to what looks to be £1 now!! Not too good! The 3 litre used to be £1.10 in the bigger tesco stores. I used to buy that one on the rare occasion that I would trek to a big tesco! Theres 8 branches of morrisons within about 6 miles of where I live along with an asda, I'd stick to going there from now on to get milk!

(link to creamfields product: http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=268684332)

moonrakerz

kt26 wrote: »

Then you pick on the Op on the basis that they are depriving the farmers of the increase.

The problem that EVERYONE who buys their milk at the cheapest possible price IS depriving the farmers of a fair price for milk.

Everyday more and more UK farmers are pulling out of milk production and Tesco and others are importing milk from places like Poland.

If you want cheap milk - make the most of it while you can, once the UK farmers are below a critical number, Tesco (and the others) can charge whatever they like and there will be nothing the consumer can do about it.............

geordie_joe

Originally Posted by kt26
I hope the price increase is passed on to the dairy farmers,

And what if it isn't? What if Tesco are keeping all the increase for themselves, and their shareholders? Would you still be happy to pay a good rate per litre if it is going to Tesco and not the farmers?
Like I say I hope the price increase is passed on, If they are keeping it for themselves then shame on them!

Yes but you were basically saying "shame on the op" for not wanting to pay the increase at tesco, without knowing who would be getting the increase.

for years they have been underpaid per litre

So they say, but for years they have been complaining the supermarkets won't buy small or odd shaped veg and fruit. Hoping to con people like you into thinking that if the supermarkets don't buy it, it goes to waste and they get no money for it.
Sorry but what has odd shaped veg got to do with it? There will plent of veg that does fit the bill in order to make a profit. A pint of milk is a pint of milk.

The point was to illustrate how farmers tell you one thing and leave to to jump to conclusions.

I'll make up the figurers here, but it goes like this

A farmer appears on the Tv and says it costs him 10p to produce a litre of milk, but the supermarkets only pay him 9p per litre. He lets us jump to the conclusion that he is losing 1p on every litre, by not mentioning that he gets 7p per litre from the EU and 3p per litre from the Uk government.

So every time he sells a litre of milk, which cost him 10p to produce, he actually gets 20p.

It's the same with odd shaped veg, he tells us the supermarkets won't buy it, and leaves us to jump to the conclusion that it get ploughed back into the ground and he gets nothing for it.

When in fact, it is snapped up by every processed food manufacturer under the sun. It doesn't get ploughed back into the ground, it gets bought and ends up in tins of soup, packets of frozen diced vegetable, frozen ready meals, school dinners, restaurant meals and any other place the consumer won't see it until it's been cut up.

and many have gone out of business.

So they keep saying, but I looked into figures a couple of years ago and it was all a con. I would be interested to see your evidence that it is a con.

So would I, but I don't have it now, but it went like this.

Someone posted links to sites that claimed X number of farmers per month had gone out of business for the last 25 years. it implied that a farmer was a man who owned a farm, and if he went out of business his farm was gone and that was one less farm in the country.

Out of curiosity I tapped the figure into my calculator, multiplied it by 12, then by 25 and came up with around 30 million.

So, if that many farmers had gone out of business in 25 years, 25 years ago their must have been at least 30 million farmers. But that couldn't be right, that would mean 25 years ago half the people in the country would have owned a farm. And I knew that was wrong.

So I followed the links on the site to the real figures, and it turned out they were the number of people who had left the farming industry. But media had decided that if someone worked in the farming industry they must be a farmer, so quotes the figures as the number of farmers going out of business, not as having left the industry.

And it turned out that most of those people had just left their jobs, and most of them had got another one in the farming industry, plus others had joined the farming industry.

It turned out the real bottom line was there was hardly any difference, it was something small like there was 5 million employed in the farming industry 25 years ago, and in that time 4 million had left a job but adding together the ones that got a new job in farming, and those who came into farming during that time, there were 4.9 million employed in the farming industry now.



I don't mind paying a good rate per litre.

As I said above, would you be happy to pay the increase if Tesco were keeping it all?Probably not, if they were keeping it all to themselves

You said the OP annoyed you for not being happy to pay tesco, without knowing if tesco were keeping all the money. Now you say you to would not be happy if they were.

I would hate to work 24/7 and continually make a loss.

Farmers don't work 24/7, and they don't continually make a loss, if they did they would soon be out of business.

What they do is tell us they get paid by the supermarkets less than it cost them to produce a litre of milk. But don't mention the grants they get from the government and Eu for producing milk, leaving the edges of the fields wild and many other things like not planting crops on lakes and golf courses.
There is no denying they get these grants. I think you will agree with me here in that, this procedure is a bit of a farce. Years ago they where given grants to remove hedges and produce more food, then given grants to replace the removed hedges and produce less food. I reckon soon enough they will be offered new grants to produce more food again due to world shortages. This annoys me.

The grants annoy me too, but my point was the farmers don't mention them when saying how much they get paid for their produce. So we think the are losing money, but when you add in the grants they get they are actually making good money.

Posts like yours make me annoyed.
Posts like your make me annoyed too. You have no way of knowing if tesco are going to pass on any of the increase to the farmers, but you do say you hope they will. Then you pick on the Op on the basis that they are depriving the farmers of the increase.

Agreed. I have no way of knowing if the increase will be passed on. I don't think I picked on the OP, if it came across like that then I apologise.

You said his/her post annoyed you, then went on to show that you were annoyed because the farmers wouldn't be getting the money if he/she didn't buy milk from tesco. But you have no idea whether the farmer will be getting the money off tesco.

Middy

Mr T charged £1.53 for 4 pints last year if you can remember it.