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[Taxi_Driver]

I have my milk delivered......i pay well over the odds for it compared to supermarket prices.....however it tastes fresher and nothing like it coming out of a glass bottle....i like to support local businesses if i can.

Had letter from Milko today with final bill and del.....saying that he's not covering my area anymore and passed my account onto another milko.....trouble is this milko is based in Melksham......hardly local to me!

So, I've being trying to find another local milko, that gets his milk local to me.....its harder than you think 

Might have to go back to supermarket milk.....if i carnt find a local milko....there is a local dairy just down the road from me....so think i will pop in and see who they supply.

[cem_devecioglu]

before , until some time ago markets were selling daily milk which even have its original cream if you wait a day.. but they then start to sell its cream seperately and its lost from milk.. however, still daily milk here is ok if you accept to have it less oil/cream..
 
ps: it was a govt organization founded 90 years ago.. private firms sell crap..

[Andy B]

I have my milk delivered......i pay well over the odds for it compared to supermarket prices.....however it tastes fresher and nothing like it coming out of a glass bottle....i like to support local businesses if i can. ....

We have a milk man too.
It tastes better because it's still pasteurised (assuming you're not lucky enough to still have green top/'raw milk' ). The stuff at the supermarket is homogenised.
Good luck finding another milkman. 

[plym ian]

I miss having a milkman proper milk as I call it.

[mantahatch]

Don't know if it is any good but this lot deliver to my road http://www.milkandmore.co.uk/

[Taxi_Driver]

Don't know if it is any good but this lot deliver to my road http://www.milkandmore.co.uk/

Sorry, but that isnt a local milko.......its part of Dairy Crest, it may get delivered by local milkos.....but the milk could come from any part of the country....they also sell to supermarkets, so would be the same milk i guess...

But thanks for the input 

[TheBoy]

No idea if our milkman is local, but we use one to have milk twice a week, so she only has to go to the supermarket once a week.

[tidla]

Our milkman retired. Not replaced. Not really a problem as you just buy the size your household get thru in a day or two.

[omega3000]

Bring back the milkman and coalman . Milk always tasted better in glass bottles as long as the blue tits didnt get the cream 

[pscocoa]

They slow down your pace of life though. The float that comes round here slows all the traffic - we want to go at 60 and he is doing max 10 mph at 7.30 in the morning. Whilst the idea is quaint the reality is that we have moved on for the better except for those who cannot get out and do not do online - solutions for them have to a great extent been left behind.

[Rog]

We used to get milk delivered to the door some years ago. We stopped as the milkman was bent. Always trying to charge us for milk not recieved, and we could never prove anything one way or the other. In a supermarket, pick up carton, pay for it and leave, simple.

[Andy B]

..... In a supermarket, pick up carton, pay for it and leave, simple.

.... another local business goes to the wall because the money has gone from the local economy to Tesco/Asda/etc .... Simple! 

[cleggy]

..... In a supermarket, pick up carton, pay for it and leave, simple.

.... another local business goes to the wall because the money has gone from the local economy to Tesco/Asda/etc .... Simple! 

It could be argued that the large supermarkets support the local economy with employment.

That said, we support local business' where practicable for Bread, Green Grocery, and Meat simply for the provence and quality. When it comes to other household goods and produce we do use Waitrose or Sainsburys.

If we could get milk delivered straight from the farm we would but there are no local suppliers  

[Rog]

..... In a supermarket, pick up carton, pay for it and leave, simple.

.... another local business goes to the wall because the money has gone from the local economy to Tesco/Asda/etc .... Simple! 

I agree with the sentiment, however the milk delivery companies were not really local businesses, they were big National concerns. And if their employees had been honest I would still be using them.

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