Why Does Milk Cost So Much More........

[Barsel]

when you only want to buy a pint?
If I bought 6 pints of milk from Tesco it would cost £1.48, so I would expect to pay 24/25p for a pint, but no, a pint of milk would cost .49p which is double. I can't understand why as the packaging is smaller and there must be so many people who only want to buy a pint if they don't use that much milk. Ok, I'll get down off my soap box now I've had my rant. :-)

[Prudie]

That is wrong but should be remedied by making the 6 pint £2.94. Milk is scandalously cheap.

[-Talbot-]

Why Does Milk Cost So Much More........


Yep.....................................Milk is scandalously cheap.

[boxtops]

Anything costs more proportionately if you want to buy a smaller quantity than if you want to buy a bulk size. The cost of packaging, transport, etc has to be taken into account - it's not just the milk.

[Barsel]

Hi Prudie, if 6pints cost £2.94 would that benefit the farmer greatly? It wouldn't benefit my friend who has a grown up son living with her and he gets through at least 6pints a day so she wouldn't be happy to pay that much more.

[Barsel]

I know what you mean boxtops but I do think there is too big a gap between the prices of milk.

[boxtops]

The farmers who are being paid scandalously low prices for milk at the farm gate ought to be answeing this question....

[Prudie]

I think it might help Barsel. I believe it costs some dairy farmers quite a bit more to produce the milk than they are paid for it. If we'renot careful we'll end up having to import all milk in the future.

[Prudie]

And I don't really think anyone should be able to get through 6 pints of anything a day for £1.48 (except water of course)

[ummmm]

If the supermarket gave the farmer the extra. Many dairy farmers are barely breaking even because the supermarkets are dictating the price of your £1.48 for 6 pints. It's really not enough money.

Maybe your friends grown up son should buy his own milk. Although milk is good for you I doubt 6 pints a day is.

[Barsel]

let's hope there is a farmer aber here who can explain because if it helps the farmer then I won't whinge so much x

[Barsel]

///Maybe your friends grown up son should buy his own milk.///

That was unfair ummmm as you do not know him. He is severely physically and mentally disabled and milk is the only liquid he will drink and he can't go out to buy his own milk.

[Gavmacp]

Is food in general to cheap? There are many articles in newspapers on how much food we throw out.

[bednobs]

i think the problem is that many many british dairy farmers are going out of business because the cost of maintaining hte herd and extracting milk is more than they get paid for the milk. In the short term, so what? you might think we import cheap milk from abroad. Cut to x years in the future when petrol has run out or is prohibitively expensive and where do you get your milk from if no-one in britain knows how or has the equipment to milk cows?

[ummmm]

Barsel....it's not unfair if I didn't know the situation. I'm not psychic.

[Barsel]

It's not something I felt I needed to mention, but I do believe people shouldn't make suggestions about people when they don't know the circumstances.

[bednobs]

i thought you asked for suggestions?

[Barsel]

No bednobs I didn't ask for suggestions, I asked about the price of milk.

[ummmm]

You could have said grown up disabled son.

We can't be expected to tread on eggshells on an internet forum just in case someone who is mentioned happens to be disabled. So I wasn't being unfair...

[boxtops]

It's not just milk, though, as I mentioned above - buy a small pot of Marmitr, it'll cost you pro rata more than half a pot twice its size. Smaller is always more expensive.

[-Talbot-]

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It's not something I felt I needed to mention,



Then you shouldn't have mentioned it.