No Wonder the jobs F’d

[Rowland]

Now normally I pop into the local Coop if I need anything, but I got parked outside local Nisa store .
The Coop put there price of milk up from for two 4 pints £2 to £2.25 about a year ago.
So I was quite surprised to see coop milk in the opposition store for two 4 pints for £2 .
I’m sure my uncle got more than that on his milk round back in late eighties early 90s .

 

[Still Farming]

Booker slightly cheaper than that again.

 

[Courier]

Unfortunately Retail Selling Prices for milk are simply picked out of thin air depending on which side of the wan**** pit the highly paid marketing manager emerged on any particular day

 

[kiwi pom]

I think the cheapest round here is about $3.45 for 2 litres so about 1 pound 72 for 2 litres. More expensive brands are available.

 

[DrWazzock]

I often wonder about this. £3.50 for a chicken. £6 for a bag of tates. I would pay £8 for a chicken and still consider it good value and £10 for a bag of spuds and still consider it good value as I have grown and graded and sold them.

Then folks pay £800 for a phone etc. Priorities all wrong.

 

[DrWazzock]

We need minimum price controls. No bag of tates should be sold for less than £10

 

[kiwi pom]

I often wonder about this. £3.50 for a chicken. £6 for a bag of tates. I would pay £8 for a chicken and still consider it good value and £10 for a bag of spuds and still consider it good value as I have grown and graded and sold them.

Then folks pay £800 for a phone etc. Priorities all wrong.

Is it priorities or is it just choice? The OP seems to have bought the bargain milk, I'm sure there was more expensive stuff there.
When I do the grocery shopping I tend to buy the cheapest of some things but will buy a more expensive brand if I prefer it or think it better value.
My aim is to spend as little as possible.
I do agree many things are too cheap, chickens a great example. But while its that price, that's what I'll pay.
Spuds are fairly cheap here too but they're also fairly crap, the higher priced ones are no better than the stuff they are discounting.

 

[muleman]

The jobs useless....in our local shop i found 4 crunchies in a pack for a pound...a bit further along i found 1 for a pound.

 

[unlacedgecko]

We need minimum price controls. No bag of tates should be sold for less than £10

Sounds like communism to me...

 

[Macsky]

It’s bizarre, why are retailers so intent on selling milk for next to nothing, does the price of it really have that much effect on how much is sold? I would imagine that most folk who go to buy milk will buy it if it’s 25p/pint or 50p+, would it really affect sales that much?

 

[kiwi pom]

It’s bizarre, why are retailers so intent on selling milk for next to nothing, does the price of it really have that much effect on how much is sold? I would imagine that most folk who go to buy milk will buy it if it’s 25p/pint or 50p+, would it really affect sales that much?

Erm yes, there's a lot of supermarkets and a set number of customers, they are all in competition with each other. They do seem to pick milk as an important product to be competitive on, I'm sure they have their reasons.
You could ask why are dairy farmers selling milk for such low prices, they could just refuse to sign contracts, work together in negotiations or pack up but they carry on because they are competing with one another, just like the supermarkets are.

 

[Kidds]

It’s bizarre, why are retailers so intent on selling milk for next to nothing, does the price of it really have that much effect on how much is sold? I would imagine that most folk who go to buy milk will buy it if it’s 25p/pint or 50p+, would it really affect sales that much?

I have no idea how much milk is. I buy Cravendale but don’t know what I pay for it (although I do know it’s not excessive) because I will be buying it anyway.
I know the price of everything else I buy in there.

 

[ajcc]

Farmers get 25p/litre housewife pays 50p/litre why is this a talking point? I’m not a dairy farmer but I do drink a litre of milk each day and 50 p is a fair price imo.

 

[Macsky]

Farmers get 25p/litre housewife pays 50p/litre why is this a talking point? I’m not a dairy farmer but I do drink a litre of milk each day and 50 p is a fair price imo.

You wouldn’t pay more?

 

[Macsky]

Erm yes, there's a lot of supermarkets and a set number of customers, they are all in competition with each other. They do seem to pick milk as an important product to be competitive on, I'm sure they have their reasons.
You could ask why are dairy farmers selling milk for such low prices, they could just refuse to sign contracts, work together in negotiations or pack up but they carry on because they are competing with one another, just like the supermarkets are.

My point is that it’s so cheap anyway, why the need to further discount it? I struggle to believe that folk decide where to shop by the discount de jour on the milk.

 

[Farm buy]

I often wonder about this. £3.50 for a chicken. £6 for a bag of tates. I would pay £8 for a chicken and still consider it good value and £10 for a bag of spuds and still consider it good value as I have grown and graded and sold them.

Then folks pay £800 for a phone etc. Priorities all wrong.

So true , nearly every other products are sold that the the dearer they are the better they are. but when it comes to food the opposite seems to work for the supermarkets, the cheaper the better they are.

 

[deleted user 837354]

You wouldn’t pay more?

Why the fudge should he?

You don't walk into a BMW showroom and volunteer to pay 5 grand over the sticker price?

At no point in my career did I ever hear a farmer say the price was too low? Every other fudging thread is about the cost of X or Y. You get farmers screaming blue murder about any talk of subsidies going and claiming that they need the money to: 'support the local economy' and yet the very same posters are on about buying groups and trying to buy agchem for £2 a can less than anyone else?

The job is borked for a lot of reasons.

Nisa or coop or whoever are selling the milk for that price, which is their business. The problems start with the idiot who agreed to supply them wholesale, probably some twit behind a desk in one of the milk buyers has X thousand too many litres this week and needs to get shot of it all quick?

 

[Star Evans]

I think there's a big disconnect between what people see and buy in the shops and what the true value of things might be. You tend to buy things that are a good / cheap price, and shop around to get those prices so your money goes further each week, but without really thinking of the other side, and what has gone into creating / producing the product. For example, the life of a chicken is surely worth more than a fiver, and yet, when you see it on the shelf next to one that's even cheaper, which one do we buy ?

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Is it priorities or is it just choice? The OP seems to have bought the bargain milk, I'm sure there was more expensive stuff there.
When I do the grocery shopping I tend to buy the cheapest of some things but will buy a more expensive brand if I prefer it or think it better value.
My aim is to spend as little as possible.
I do agree many things are too cheap, chickens a great example. But while its that price, that's what I'll pay.
Spuds are fairly cheap here too but they're also fairly crap, the higher priced ones are no better than the stuff they are discounting.

Farmers shop around for "the best price" all the time; I certainly wouldn't pay $50 for an airfilter element if I could get two for the price.

I'd also be annoyed enough if, for example, the gov't put a minimum price limit on filters to further protect the people that mass-produce them - and I'd buy from overseas via Ebay just to fück them off.

I could also choose to buy genuine parts at a premium price.... choices, eh!

 

[Macsky]

Why the fudge should he?

You don't walk into a BMW showroom and volunteer to pay 5 grand over the sticker price?

At no point in my career did I ever hear a farmer say the price was too low? Every other fudging thread is about the cost of X or Y. You get farmers screaming blue murder about any talk of subsidies going and claiming that they need the money to: 'support the local economy' and yet the very same posters are on about buying groups and trying to buy agchem for £2 a can less than anyone else?

The job is borked for a lot of reasons.

Nisa or coop or whoever are selling the milk for that price, which is their business. The problems start with the idiot who agreed to supply them wholesale, probably some twit behind a desk in one of the milk buyers has X thousand too many litres this week and needs to get shot of it all quick?

I never said or meant to imply that he should, just curious.