Milk in pint bottles @98p

And eventually glass will be recycled.

Oh yes. I hadn’t thought about the reuse bit?

I was thinking well, it’s manufactured from raw materials, can be recycled and is there for ever once you’ve made it, what’s the difference?

No, I wouldn't pay that price. I am sure the farmers won't be seeing any of the increase.

Paying a premium price for something you can get half price in the supermarket is a question for the Moral Maze.

Rather like small independent bookshops that sell a new blockbuster for £20 but Tesco sells it for £12.

And to save on resources all books could be on e-readers, couldn't they

The milkman who delivers two doors away very often arrives at about 2 or 3 am in the morning. He makes a right racket. I think sometimes he is making a point to those of us he doesn't deliver to ?

I couldn't afford those prices now Mollygo - much as I would like to support a local business and we try to be as ethical as possible.

We had doorstep deliveries for years. It was difficult in the summer months. The milk was often 'on the turn' by the time it arrived mid morning. We had six DC and got through 8+ pints a day so cost was certainly a consideration when we switched to plastic bottles from the supermarket.

The adult DC all have some milk from the milkman. Not everyday I think it comes every other day, and is delivered in the middle of the night.. They also top up from the supermarket because it's cheaper. For most people the price does matter.

Would I switch back? Maybe, but as far as I know we are not on a milkman's round.

my milk is delivered together with my organic veg. Organic unhomogenised from pasture-fed cows from a farm in my county. 1 litre is £1.25 in a recyclable container. I never buy milk from anywhere else. I never use much dairy milk, 1 litre lasts me a week. I supplement with organic non dairy, soya, almond etc

We buy our milk on draught from the local farm shop. You buy the glass bottles and then take them in and refill them yourself. It's not as expensive as the milkman and is produced locally and reduces plastic.

Occasionally I also buy milk from the Morrisons 'For Farmers' range (they do cheese and stuff too) where you pay a little bit more than the standard price of stuff but the difference goes straight back to the farmer.

No I wouldn't pay that price, simply because I could not afford to. My gss arrive a few times a week, one sleeps over, so it's glass of milk times after time, milkshakes and then of course Cereal.

We’ve always had the milkman here. Admittedly it is more expensive, but to me it’s worth not having to lug another heavy item home from the shops, plus a lot less plastic in the recycling box.
He also delivers FR eggs weekly, and a lot of other items are available if you order (or cancel) the evening before. All done online now.,

I’m afraid with ever increasing costs on just about everything now, we have to make what savings we can where we can and paying so much more for the cost for milk that is doorstep delivered would mean a no for me, unfortunately, as I suspect it would for many other people, too.

I must say Calendargirl I haven't noticed anyone on here "being very righteous about their shopping, not difficult if you can afford to be". I am lucky enough to be able to be out and about most days in my car and pick up milk when and if I need it but my DS has been using a local milk delivery for the past two years and is very pleased with it. I bought him a small crate with a handle for his doorstep.

Obviously I would prefer glass in bottles like it used to be.
But at that price I would be hard pushed to afford it, especially now with rising prices. I'm already having to economise.

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I don’t think it’s righteous to have deliveries in bottles, just a matter of economics. We use over 16 pints a week so I buy 4x4pints then top up.
I was interested to hear that for some people it’s only 70p per pint instead of 98p so that would be £11.20 instead of £4.60. It’s slightly better than £16.52 but I think I’ll have to stick with the supermarket.
I’ll miss the sight of frozen milk and the blue tits on the bottles though.

I have had milk in bottles for a few year 85p a pint but we only have about 6 pts a week as there is only x2 of us now.
I don't think milk should be in plastic anymore but understand if you have big families who drink loads.

We are continuing with milk deliveries as I like to buy organic milk in “pint” bottles. Our local coop only
sells organic milk in litre bottles.It is certainly a luxury and can imagine families would find the cost unsustainable , like only buying free range chicken .I have no idea what time it is delivered as the delivery man is so quiet. Unlike the paper delivery person who wakes us by reversing up the drive at great speed. Didn’t our parents spend a greater proportion of their income on food than we do now?

I buy my milk from a local farm. I get one 6pint plastic bottle a week. It costs me £1.70. I could have it delivered for 85p per glass bottle.

I don't drink milk, but DH does. I get milk delivered ,otherwise I would forget to buy it!

No, I wouldn't pay for delivery.
I also wouldn't want lots of glass bottles hanging around.

No, I wouldn’t either.
The supermarket milk is from British farms and Morrisons have a ‘for farmers’ thing where you can pay an extra 10p a litre if you feel so inclined. That is given back to the farmers.
It’s delivered when I want it, not at 3am in the morning and I don’t have to bother cancelling it if we go away.
I don’t see why glass bottles are more environmentally friendly - I rinse out the plastic ones and the council recycles them.

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Glass is washed and reused, time and time again. plastic isn’t. Or am I missing something?

Yes, simple to understand I thought.

Everyone has their own priorities as to how they spend their money. Spending 98p on a pint of milk seems cheap compared to £5 on a bottle of wine or paying almost £3 for one cup of coffee in a cafe.

The milk my dairy delivers comes from just a few local farms who cooperate to sell their produce. I know there’s no factory farms involved and I could probably go and say hello to the cows, if I wanted to!

That’s my choice, others may choose differently.

My daughter had milk delivered, but sometimes she'd end up with too much, then it would get muddled up - older bottles to fresher ones.
Sometimes she would be waiting on the delivery.

I am environmentally friendly at around that price (I'm not actually sure of the exact price per pint charged by our milkman).

Yes it's more expensive, but it is organic, and I believe it to be "friendlier" to the cows and to the farmer/producer. Worth it, for me, to pay the extra.

I’ve no idea how my dear mother managed all the milk deliveries for seven of a family. We didn’t even have a fridge until I was in senior school but I don’t ever recall being given milk that had gone off.