Milk in pint bottles @98p

I do pay extra for local milk delivered in glass bottles, but appreciate that I’m lucky to be able to do so. Ours is 70p a bottle.

My milk man was one of my lifelines throughout the pandemic when I didn’t want to go to shops. I had stopped using him when I retired to save money but when the pandemic started he agreed to put me back on his round: he was so inundated with people wanting to use him that I was one of the last people he took on. It also meant that I could get cheese, orange juice, yoghurt and eggs. I resolved to continue to use him even though I now get Tesco deliveries. A farmer friend of mine thinks that bottled milk is purer in some way but I haven’t asked him why that is. I don’t think dairies make much profit from supplying to supermarkets. I criticised my daughter a couple of years ago for getting her milk from the milkman as she was paying so much but she said she wanted to as it was far more ethical.

I find it convenient to buy supermarket milk with my groceries but I would happily pay twice the price or more if I knew the extra was going to the farmers.

Yes. We now get door step milk. We only use about five pints a week but so does my daughter, who gets through gallons of it.

To me, it’s a small way of being more sustainable. You could always get some doorstep milk and top up with supermarket milk.

Sadly I would not be able to pay the bottle prices. I prefer milk in bottles but once the supermarkets were allowed to sell everything the rot set in.

Seeing the milkman with his cart seems so uniquely English but sadly I think it won’t last.

I might just as I would pay for organic veg , free range corn-fed chicken and organic meat. Especially if delivered to my door.
Where is this local milk processed and bottled out of interest?
Plastic containers, tetra pak or glass bottles?

MayBeMaw, Our cheap milk comes from a local farm, according to the label. The supermarket started using them during lockdown and have gone on with that since. That’s not what I asked though. Would you pay that big a price difference?

Your cheap milk is likely to be driving more and more dairy farmers out of business.