Iceland Milk

fishingcinema

our local tescos 6 pints used to be £1.62 now gone up to £1.96:eek:
i go through 6 pints + a day

Steve_xx

Some shops offer 2L cartons of milk for around 99p. Be careful of these as they are not a full 4 pints. The carton needs to be 2.27L for it to convert to a full 4 pints. These smaller cartons are a tad deceiving!

MarkyMarkD

2 litres for 99p is still way cheaper than the £1.30 odd the main supermarkets are now charging for 4 pints.

bella4uk

I am thinking of writing to Iceland after noticing their red top skimmed milk, it keeps going off before the sell by date and curdling in tea/coffee etc...this is not just a one off thing, twice I've taken it back, 3 times I've just binned it, this has been in the last 2/3 months and I only occasionally buy skimmed.
However I haven't had a problem with the green top semi skimmed.

Patr100

irnbru wrote: »

Are you sure you're not confusing pints and litres?

2 pints - it's still the cheapest for me.

meeps

netto 4 pint bottles are currently 2 for £2.50, not that long since they were 2 for £2, but this still saves a few pence compared to main supermarkets.

fififoofoo

The reason the price of everything is going up is because there is a shortage of wheat and grains. Australia and others are having a bad time of it, so are buying on the foreign market and paying a good price. Hence a shortage, and this affects the price of lots of food within the dairy industry also, as well as bread and manufactured foods.
I work for a major supermarket and everything is going up in price - you may notice chicken will rise in price too shortly. It's the supply and demand of the world ecomony unfortunately. Petrol will be next - £1 per litre next week they say!
Sorry for the doom and gloom!

Steve_xx

fififoofoo wrote: »

The reason the price of everything is going up is because there is a shortage of wheat and grains. Australia and others are having a bad time of it, so are buying on the foreign market and paying a good price. Hence a shortage, and this affects the price of lots of food within the dairy industry also, as well as bread and manufactured foods.
I work for a major supermarket and everything is going up in price - you may notice chicken will rise in price too shortly. It's the supply and demand of the world ecomony unfortunately. Petrol will be next - £1 per litre next week they say!
Sorry for the doom and gloom!

The price of oil drives everything up. Oil is needed to transport everything to where we need it. When it goes up in price, then the consumer eventually has to foot the bill and this is normally in the form of more expensive foodstuffs, household goods etc. If as well as oil price rises there is flooding, then this affects crops, ie potatoes etc, so you can expect them to get more expensive this season. The funny thing is, that when it's a bumper season, these thing never seem to get cheaper again!

The goverment gains from all of this in the form of increased VAT revenues. Well I mean, the Queen and the other hangers on are in a bit of a bad way, compared with the rest of us. Poor things!

MarkyMarkD

There's no VAT on milk or a significant proportion of other foodstuffs, so whilst what you say has some merit, Steve, is isn't really relevant to this thread on the price of milk.

Steve_xx

MarkyMarkD wrote: »

There's no VAT on milk or a significant proportion of other foodstuffs, so whilst what you say has some merit, Steve, is isn't really relevant to this thread on the price of milk.

But there is duty on the fuel that brings the milk to the stores. That means that if the price of the fuel rises then delivery costs rise and these cost are, at some point, passed onto the consumer. They've not got around to installing cows nests in supermarkets as yet in order to provide the milk.