I was shocked when I went to the shop this morning for a bottle of MILK

millie

Asda did a few days ago, also noticed Asda toastie bread is now 90p only went up to 80p a few weeks ago.

Rosa_Damascena

I found myself in the unenviable position of running out of milk this week. I lasted exactly 2 days without drinking tea and found coffee made with cream to be disgusting so when I next drove I bought 6 pints from Aldi and it was well over the £2 mark.

Milk is for the first time more expensive than fuel. Finally we are showing a bit of respect to cows.

MrsStepford

Arla is putting farmers' milk prices up for conventional milk (only) in October and this is likely to impact prices for Cravendale and supermarket milk brands which they supply. Currency does affect Arla, because ultimately it's a a Danish farmers' co-operative. Some of their milk brands use EU milk and that is obviously impacted by Brexit. 

Arla's October milk rise impacted by weaker pound - FarmingUK News

fatbelly

The standard 4pt price is now £1.55, or thereabouts. Noticed that in Iceland yesterday when getting my 10% discount.

jon81uk

Rosa_Damascena said:

I found myself in the unenviable position of running out of milk this week. I lasted exactly 2 days without drinking tea and found coffee made with cream to be disgusting so when I next drove I bought 6 pints from Aldi and it was well over the £2 mark.

Milk is for the first time more expensive than fuel. Finally we are showing a bit of respect to cows.

Milk is still cheaper than fuel. A 4 pint bottle is about 2.2 litres and is £1.55 at Tesco, 68p per litre, unleaded petrol was 166p per litre at Tesco.

If farmers are getting 46p per litre, then 68p per litre isn't bad to process it and pay for a bottle, refridgeration etc. The farmers should still be getting more, but I think the main change is the supermarkets are no longer using milk as a loss leader.

milkyway_4

MrsStepford said:

Arla is putting farmers' milk prices up for conventional milk (only) in October and this is likely to impact prices for Cravendale and supermarket milk brands which they supply. Currency does affect Arla, because ultimately it's a a Danish farmers' co-operative. Some of their milk brands use EU milk and that is obviously impacted by Brexit. 

Arla is a farmer-owned dairy cooperative - that means we Arla dairy farmers own the cows that supply the milk & we also own the Arla business too. 

We are a European dairy cooperative with farmers in 7 European countries, including 2,000 British Arla dairy farmers, who supply 1/4 of all British fresh milk. Our global HQ is in Denmark, our UK HQ is in Leeds.

As our milk price is made up from an equal share of the returns from sales of all Arla milk & dairy products then the currency exchange rate must be part of this calculation.

Only milk from British dairy farmers is ever sold as fresh milk in Britain.
Cravendale, Arla BoB milk & Arla BIG milk all contain milk from British Arla dairy farmers, as per the label.

double_dutchy

Milk is still cheaper than fuel. 

Thank the Lord! I'm not putting unleaded on my cornflakes 

[back on topic]. At Tesco you now have to pay more for a two pinter than you did 6 months back for a 4 pinter (£1.25 cf £1.15)

pumpkin89

double_dutchy said:

[back on topic]. At Tesco you now have to pay more for a two pinter than you did 6 months back for a 4 pinter (£1.25 cf £1.15)

This is the most frustrating part of it in my view.

I completely accept that price increases on milk were long overdue and don't mind the price going up per se.  But I do object to the prices going up vastly disproportionately on the smaller bottles.  Most retailers are now selling:

• 4pt for £1.55
• 2pt for £1.25 (= 4pt for £2.50)
• 1pt for £0.89 (= 4pt for £3.56)

This is simply penalising smaller households.  It does cost slightly more to produce smaller bottles but nowhere near that much.

jon81uk

pumpkin89 said:

double_dutchy said:

[back on topic]. At Tesco you now have to pay more for a two pinter than you did 6 months back for a 4 pinter (£1.25 cf £1.15)

This is the most frustrating part of it in my view.

I completely accept that price increases on milk were long overdue and don't mind the price going up per se.  But I do object to the prices going up vastly disproportionately on the smaller bottles.  Most retailers are now selling:

• 4pt for £1.55
• 2pt for £1.25 (= 4pt for £2.50)
• 1pt for £0.89 (= 4pt for £3.56)

This is simply penalising smaller households.  It does cost slightly more to produce smaller bottles but nowhere near that much.

But that disparity has always been there.
When the price of four pint bottles dropped down to £1 due to the competition between the stores, 1 pint was about 50p and 2 pints about 75p. So I think the 2pint bottle has risen disproportionally, but 1pint being half the price of 4pints has been that way for a while.

I think a lot of it is due to the 4pint being used as a bit of a loss leader for supermarkets.

molerat

Strangely the price disparity does not filter upwards to the 6pt, only 4p / l cheaper !