Milkies

[mlbtheshow]

Random question tbh

Anyone here still get milk from a Milky?

I ask as our local milkman knocked on our door asking if we would give them our business.. .even if it was just 4 pints a week. Apparently he has to drum up 40 new customers to keep the round going.

Now I appreciate that everyone is on a budget (myself included) and also that everyone's job is important in this day and age, so its a bit of a moral dilemma.

Price wise I believe id be paying an extra 15p per pint at least over my supermarket 'floor price', however certain deals as a certain chain has at the minute allows me to get 8pints of Full Fat milk for £2... thats a bargain, especially as at the minute we go through at least 28 pints per week.

So do I let the Milky in and help out the local community as such, get the convenience of milk on my doorstep every other morning, or do I save the extra £3+ per week by getting my milk as I normally do!

I think ill keep it as I am, but I do feel like a kid born out of wedlock because of it.

 

[FatBoyObese]

Milk delivered daily is fresh and probably hasn't been sat in a warm warehouse waiting to go onto the shelves for hours.....lost count of the amount of supermarket milk that we have lost due to it going sour within the sell by date

 

[Biohazard]

Milk delivered daily is fresh and probably hasn't been sat in a warm warehouse waiting to go onto the shelves for hours.....lost count of the amount of supermarket milk that we have lost due to it going sour within the sell by date

It's more likely your fridge than theirs tbh.

 

[Biohazard]

My user name has milk in it.

I feel this needed to be pointed out..

+ 1 cookie

 

[PhillyDee]

Milk delivered daily is fresh and probably hasn't been sat in a warm warehouse waiting to go onto the shelves for hours.....lost count of the amount of supermarket milk that we have lost due to it going sour within the sell by date

Asda promise a full week after selling. Usually lasts longer.

 

[utajoker]

wish we had a milk man

 

[Cosimo]

Yes, we get our milk delivered by a milkman. It’s always here before we wake up. He now delivers groceries, dairy products, bread and many other items. You can hange your delivery days and cancel the delivery for holidays online. Payments are electronic as well. All this has been done to keep the milk delivery service going and it appears to have worked.

 

[PapaLazaru]

28 pints a week?

Christ I could probably do that in beer, but milk?

 

[Captain_Slick]

28 pints a week?

Christ I could probably do that in beer, but milk?

But milk is nicer than beer and used in more ways?

 

[Energize]

Jesus 28 pints, god knows how much fat and sugar that is.

 

[Munkyman]

We used to but we kept getting it pinched. So the milkman gave us a lockable cage to keep the milk secure but it still got pinched. We gave up after that and bought it ourselves instead

 

[glitch]

Anyone here still get milk from a Milky?

I started using the 'local' milkman to deliver about three years ago but it got to the stage where the prices were extracting the urine, so I went back to the local supermarket.

I don't have the figures to hand, but I'm pretty sure it was about to climb above 70p a pint and that was bordering on the ridiculous. I don't particularly care that he can 'only' delivery on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday but I'm not paying 70p a pint.

Milk delivered daily is fresh and probably hasn't been sat in a warm warehouse waiting to go onto the shelves for hours.....

How fresh is it though? I'd be highly sceptical that it took anything less than 24-hours for it to make it from cow to bottle to doorstep, which is the slightly romanticised view of milkmen which we've been fed.

I wouldn't be too surprised, but only too happy to be set straight on the matter, to find that the milk your average milkmen delivers is the exact same stuff that you buy from the supermarket, albeit ever so slightly fresher.

lost count of the amount of supermarket milk that we have lost due to it going sour within the sell by date

As already mentioned, that's more likely to be down to something you are doing rather than the supermarket.

It's been a long time since I stacked shelves but we had a finite window to get the milk delivery sorted - the whole warehouse stopped to let us get it out of the loading bay and into the chiller within the allotted timeframe.

 

[SpeedFreak]

I do from here:

http://www.milkandmore.co.uk/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=10205

62p per pint and it's there waiting two morning a week. He even comes round and drops it at the back door out of sight

 

[Conanius]

I am in total awe of you getting through TWENTY EIGHT pints in a week.

I just about manage 6-8 with me and my other half having cereal with milk for breakfast, her drinking enough tea to sink a ship, and the bits and pieces of home baking that we do.

You must have about 6 children !?

 

[finga]

if we got through 28 pints of milk per week then I would get it ALL delivered by a milkman, I dont fancy carrying your shopping bags, mines bad enough with the bottled water and pepsi max as it is

 

[Werewolf]

We get our milk delivered these days, it's slightly more expensive that buying it from the supermarket, but it's delivered very early in the morning, normally have 7 days on the BBE, and saves a lot of hassle going to the shop specifically for it (we get 12 litres a week).

We drink a LOT of tea and coffee

 

[M0T]

We used to get our milk delivered by the milkman but he took the pee a bit. We were on 6 pints a week, 2 on monday wednesday and friday. The number of times he would not deliver all week and then drop off 6 pints on a friday afternoon was ridiculous. We ended up spending more on milk because we kept having to go to the supermarket and buy stuff because it hadn't been delivered.

Plus a pint of milk in the supermarket is 45p, quite a bit cheaper than the milkman.

 

[sigma]

There's also less chance of wife doing a runner with him if you don't buy from him!