Local Shop Selling Farmfoods Milk - is this allowed?

[Deleted User]

I used to work at Kwiksave back in the day and the local Asian shop owners would come in every day and buy the cheap bread by the trolley full. Some even had the cheek to ask us to order extra specially for them.

[Deleted User]

Also whats the big deal about keeping milk chilled? Milkmen still deliver milk from the the back of milk floats and leave them on door steps.

Fishingtime

How do you know that the shop owner does not have a deal with farmfoods.
as you said as far as you are aware they don't supply other shops.
My local shop out in the sticks used to be supplied with a lot of things from Sainsburys

MysteryMe

So basically the OP's mum found a good deal on milk at her local shop and the OP is moaning about it.

No one, least of all the OP, knows the circumstances as to why milk branded Farmfoods milk is being sold in a local shop (not that there is anyonthing wrong in that) yet we have now lept to the conclusion that "she is transporting milk in her car" and it's going to make people drinking it ill.

Other than making wild assumptions and blowing things out of proportion can someone remind me what the point of this thread was again?

[Deleted User]

Do we all get ill after bringing our own milk home from the supermarket via the car boot?

cool-dog

Well you could complain about the shop to everyone you know etc. and get them to stop shopping there.

The consequences are:
Shop closes - peoples lively hoods are ruined
Your dear Mum has further to travel to the next shop and has to pay more for her bread and milk - meaning she has to spend more of her pension on these items.

The benefits are, you get to be smug because they dare make a profit on some items.

Personally, I would be more concerned about the fact that FarmFoods are selling 2 bottles (presumably 4 pint bottles) for £1.60, and how little they are paying the farmers to produce this milk.

whiteroom184

i am a wholesaler and sell all manner of goods and foods to convenience stores.
firstly i cannot believe the first post feels annoyed enough to post such a thread
secondly retailers only make between 5p and 7p per 2 litres of milk sold when bought direct from the dairies
thirdly if the OP or anyone else does not like it dont shop there
the days of shopkeepers earning £1000's a week profit are over, competition from multiples, duty avoided alcohol and cigarettes,
ridiculous promotional pricing from groups like spar, nisa, costcutter etc which retailers mainly fund themselves have pinched their pockets. making an extra 5p or 10p per customer is the difference between going under or staying afloat for the "legal" shopkeeper

rant over lol

stephen77

Not sure if farm foods will approve. If some one becomes ill from this, they may still be liable and get the bad press.

stephen77

Deleted_User wrote: »

Do we all get ill after bringing our own milk home from the supermarket via the car boot?

shelf life testing for the retailers on fresh chilled products will include a period of time where the product is stored at 20 plus centigrade to represent taking the product from the store to home on a hot summers day in the boot of your car for 2 hours.

This above will happen once. It will not be tested for twice. Which is what happening when the farm shops sells it to you.

Valli

stephen77 wrote: »

Not sure if farm foods will approve. If some one becomes ill from this, they may still be liable and get the bad press.

Farmfoods won't have the liability at all, as the contract will be between the (new) retailer and customer.