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

MiserlyMartin

prowla said:

Apparently we're going to bring back the good old British pint!

No more of that continental litres rubbish.

It was always sold in pints. Most shops have on the bottle 4 pints - 2.272 litres. The pint is put first. The only way they will go back to pints as Boris is saying, is if they remove the measurement in litres completely from the bottle and I don't see that ever happening. You don't go into a pub and ask for so many litres of beer, you have a pint or a half. Quite a few pints were consumed at the government parties durinmg lockdown apparently.

Grabs39

Zinger549 said:

Grabs39 said:

85p a pint form our local milkwoman.  Went up from 80p about a year ago. 

She has had to recently cut deliveries from 5 days a week to 4, due to the cost of diesel.

Our milkman still uses and electric milk float.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an electric float.  Ours uses a flatbed Ford transit.  I expect they’ll all go back to electric in the future though.

silverwhistle

How many have you met? What sort of farmers were they: arable, horticulture, mixed, dairy? Tenant, manager, large landowner with generous subsidies, hill farmer?

I know absolutely none, but your statement sounds like a parrotted phrase.

Silvertabby

milkyway_4 said:

Frogletina said:

I buy Arla lactose free milk...the price has increased such a lot recently.

My local co-op sells it for £2 a litre. Most places don't sell it any lower than £1 85.

I've tried other makes, but I don't like the taste.

Thank you very much for buying Arla. 

Arla is a farmer-owner dairy cooperative.

Being a coperative mans that the dairy farmers who own the cows, are also the owners of Arla Foods business, which processes our milk into bottled milk & other dairy products - so when you buy Arla dairy products you are buying *direct* from us, the dairy farmers.

There are 2,200 British Arla dairy farmers & we produce 1/4 of all British fresh milk.

As well as Arla lactofree, not only do we also produce Cravendale, Arla BoB, & Arla Big Milk, but a lot of our cow's milk goes into the supermarket own brand milk bottles, eg Asda, Aldi & Morrisons.

Asda & Morrisons have a 'Farmers Milk' where the consumer is given the choice to pay a bit more for their milk. Be assured that this extra does go back to a specific group of farmers who follow extra animal welfare & business standards to receive the extra money.

Once a retailer buys the milk & dairy products from us, it's up to them what price they offer it to the customer.
In the UK, milk is used as a loss-leader, meaning that the price on the shelf is usually lower than that they've paid us for it - they bargain on customers coming into their stores for 'cheap' milk & recouping any loss on other goods bought while they're in the store.

Recently we've had to ask the supermarkets, etc, to pay us extra for the milk they buy from us.
In the past, short term fluctuations in prices & profitibility have been absorbed ... however, for the sustainability of our businesses & the welfare of our cows, these recent extreme cost rises of mainly feed, fuel & fertiliser, are unfortunately having to be passed on to the supermarkets.

Thank you to everyone who supports British farmers - it is greatly appreciated! 

We buy Arla BoB.  Haven't a clue how much we pay for it - we like it and won't change just to save a few pence.  

We do have a local milk delivery chap, but he does his rounds between 1am and 2am, so we'd have to get out of bed to bring it in before it froze (winter) or went rancid (summer).

diystarter7

Warning.
Even we've got caught out as almost every food item is going up as well as toileteries.

So items up by 50%, Sure deodorant over 3 quid.
Margerine i buy 500g from 2 to 3 pounds

So I now look carefully at the prices and leave the item if they've put it really high as often you can buy cheaper ffrom another

We shop online for main shop since Covid and I get this feeling re supermarkets just like petrol companies that it is a almost a cartel but without the offical agreements as they all seem to follow the other and 90% of the time its prices up.

Auntycaz

Frogletina said:

I buy Arla lactose free milk...the price has increased such a lot recently.

My local co-op sells it for £2 a litre. Most places don't sell it any lower than £1 85.

I've tried other makes, but I don't like the taste.

I also buy fresh lactofree milk but don't really like the long life one. I usually check on trolley.co.uk to find out where it is the cheapest and I stock up a bit when it is on offer. It was £1.25 a litre last week in Asda but £2.00 in waitrose. Hope this helps.

MrsStepford

Cheapest 1 pint organic pasteurised unhomogenised fresh whole milk seen by husband is a 70p tetrapak from Graham's, in Scotland, at Sainsbury's.  He restocked today but was shocked that Sainsbury's SO organic Fairtrade 80 black tea teabags 250g had risen in price from 1.50 to 2.20

Our Milk & More milkman has a silent electric float. He arrives around 05: 00 and brings us organic yogurts on Mondays and an organic veg box every other Wednesday free of charge. With husband picking up milk from Sainsbos, plus the Milk & More stuff, we don't need Abel & Cole. Delivery 1.99 per week for A&C = 103.48 saving per year 

tizerbelle

Kim_kim said:

tizerbelle said:

I get milk delivered direct from a local farm 3 times a week. It costs £1.25/litre or £0.68/pint. 

Yes, its more expensive than from any of the shops but all the money goes to the farm, there are no middle-men / brokers / supermarkets taking their cut, the food miles are much less than milk from any other source (the farm is only 5 miles away), they sell full-fat, semi-skimmed or skimmed but probably most importantly of all - it tastes so much better than the milk from the shops.  

Do you really think it tastes better/different?
I get that BOB milk, that’s about £2 for 2 litres.  

Actually, yes I do think it tastes better.  But tbh even if it tasted the same I think I would stick with the farm milk rather than supermarket purely for supporting a local farmer and pretty much zero food miles.  

MACKEM99

Seems strange to me that we are an island and are short of fish??

fatbelly

Milk is up again at Lidl - £1.35 for 4 pints now. 

I noticed yoghurts going up too which I guess is logical.