Milk Prices: have I missed something? 6 September 2019 at 1:58PM in Gone off! 3 replies 4.3K views

maman

When I went to buy my usual milk this week (Arla BOB) it had gone up from £1.20 a carton to £1.60. That's a 33.3% increase!:eek:

I checked on mysupermarket and the price for the BOB milk seems much the same everywhere, not counting offers.

Is this a case of a price rise just 'because they can' or has something happened to push up the price of milk?

Kentish_Dave

They may be doing it for moral reasons, paying farmers a fair price for their milk.

dlusman

Kentish_Dave wrote: »

They may be doing it for moral reasons, paying farmers a fair price for their milk.

Most of the recent news would appear to be suppliers reducing prices
https://milkprices.com/membersnews.asp


and Arla have been keeping their prices steady
https://milkprices.com/membersnewsarticle.asp?id=1831
so any increase would seem to be down to the retailers rather than the suppliers

maman

Bought milk this morning and the Arla BOB in the Co-op has now gone up to £1.80. That's a 50% rise from what I was paying in September. :mad:

I know I can vote with my feet and go elsewhere and buy semi-skimmed more cheaply but that doesn't make it right.

It is on offer at various places at the moment but £1.80 seems to be the new regular price.

Is other milk escalating in price like this?