Milk in pint bottles @98p

We’ve had the same milkman for 42 years. I’ve stayed loyal because my Dad was a milkman - I don’t want to see the service disappear. Our milk is 75p a pint. We do buy extra from the supermarket if we run short.

Probably a cat burglar, after the milk

My DS and DIL have milk delivered. Or rather they did, until the milkman refused to come to their house as he'd twice been attacked by a cat who wasn't even theirs !!
So it's off to the supermarket for milk now.

I had a couple of young men at my door last summer selling milk in bottle deliveries plus other dairy products, eggs, bread and potatoes. I took their leaflet and costed what it would be to have my weekly requirements from them and it came to about £5 more than my total weekly shopping budget. It was not something I could afford then let alone now with all the price rises.

We buy milk from a local shop. You buy a 1 litre glass bottle first then you wash it at home and get it refilled at £0.99p a litre. We put the bottle and metal top in the dishwasher and have 2 bottles so don't run out.

Agree Money to the farmers We need to buy local but the price of this is sometimes prohibitive I try always to look for UK meat and veg when i go shopping Aldi and Lidal are very good at selling British so shop there often !!!

We have been supporting our local dairy for few years would much prefer milk in glass bottles than plastic ones, and we do like to buy local

I wouldn't pay that much just to get my milk in a bottle. When I was a child a local dairy farmer's wife used to go round the village house to house on a horse and cart with churns on the trailer. Everyone provided their own container and she just poured the milk into your jug or bottle straight from the churn. It was always so fresh and the cream sat on top of the milk. Happy days, long gone.

Just me, but it seems like a lot of virtue signaling to me about what you would do to help the planet. I know that recycling and all those things very often do not wind up doing anything like the good they're purported to do. Often, they are just a way for other people to make money. The waste is shipped to China to be disposed of there, and our rules keep getting stricter and stricter. As for supporting the local farmer, I am all for it. However, I do think the price that the OP discussed is plain, old fashioned gouging. I would pay more if I thought it were doing good, but I would not go anywhere near that cost.
Personally, that price sounds like a GOOP tactic (Gwyneth Paltrow, who can't do enough for the planet, but drives a gigantic SUV and charges $300 for face cream). Also, there are people who are just barely making it with the discount, all-in-one groceries. They should not be made to feel badly because they cannot afford to pay sky high prices. Cue the storm.

Sadly in my area the door to door delivery of milk in a bottle has stopped so it’s back to the supermarket

I stopped getting milk delivered a number of years ago as it kept disappearing from the doorstep, then had to go to shop to buy more.

I get my milk delivered to my doorstep twice a week in glass bottles. I pay £5.15 for 5 bottles of organic milk. The milk tastes so much better out of glass bottles and I think it’s well worth the money.

I’m amazed how many people don’t see how recycling is worse for the environment than reusing. Simple economics: manufacture once and then have milkman collect when he delivers then rinse, reuse vs manufacture, have council collect, deliver to recycling plant, use power to clean, more power to melt down or shred etc, use more power to deliver to manufacturers, power to recreate the bottle, more power to deliver to food suppliers who then fill it……

There are lots of users for recycled plastic.
I would pay a little more to a,company that recycled and reused.

polnan

I get two bottles a week delivered by milk and more

no way are they charging these prices,

pay £15.68 per week instead of the £4.60 for the milk

£15.68 for 4 bottles of milk??????

Milk and more charge 86p a bottle at the momen,

polnan just to clarify what you read.
The £4.60per week is for 4x4 pint containers.
1x4 pints costs £1.15 so each pint costs 29p.
I use about 16 pints per week so if I paid 86p per pint, it would cost me £13.76 instead of £4.60.

I think it’s great that some posters can and do afford to support delivery services.

No way could I afford that price difference

We still have to go to supermarket for everything else and recycle containers from milk so I can’t see how getting milk delivered on top when I use one 6pt bottle a week would be more environmentally friendly. As long as supermarkets use local milk we don’t need to pay 4 times as much for milk!

I get two bottles a week delivered by milk and more

no way are they charging these prices,

pay £15.68 per week instead of the £4.60 for the milk

£15.68 for 4 bottles of milk??????

Milk and more charge 86p a bottle at the momen,

An extra £520 per year. No!

Yes, probably.
Either way, I won't be paying for delivery; it's far too much out of my budget at the moment.

MissAdventure

Unless each bottle is reused 20 times or more, they are just as bad for the environment.
Just saying.

The Milk & More website says theirs are reused on average 25 times. I’m guessing that’s representative?

Yes, we've had doorstep milk in glass bottles, for years. Mr. 1968 cooks all.our meals from scratch (we have a local veg box, delivered weekly from the farm shop) and we don't each much meat. He also makes our bread. Having the milk delivered is something we budget to afford. It was a real boon in lockdown.

Unless each bottle is reused 20 times or more, they are just as bad for the environment.
Just saying.

I would love a milkman call, I used to love it when growing up and he came every morning then came to be paid on Fridays, those were the days, and what about the battery driven milk cart,they say progress has been made with electric cars, but milkmen were around seventy years ago, so whats new. I hope the milk man makes a come back, pricey or not, it saves carrying pins from the supermarket and bottles are far better than the plastic bottles in supermarkets. Just saying.

Constantly being approached by dairy reps for delivery. When I asked what time the milk would be delivered I was put off by it usually being between 2 - 5 am. Sorry but I don't fancy my milk sitting on the doorstep from that time if day in the summer. Yes, I can put out a freezer block in an isolated bag but why should I need to. I do know that some milk is actually delivered about 12.30 am, I've seen it when I have been out late. I buy local dairy stuff from a local shop.