Cost of milk in your local shop

[cesare]

I'm in Northampton !

My local shop is for fags and emergencies only !

I think I'm quite lucky. My local shops are a bit pricier than the supermarkets, but the supermarkets are a bus ride away. And some of the local shops have huge bags of rice and spices at pretty much wholesale prices. The greengrocers, bakers and butchers are cheaper too ... so it really is only the tinned, packet and branded products that tend to work out more.

 

[mentalchik]

I think I'm quite lucky. My local shops are a bit pricier than the supermarkets, but the supermarkets are a bus ride away. And some of the local shops have huge bags of rice and spices at pretty much wholesale prices. The greengrocers, bakers and butchers are cheaper too ... so it really is only the tinned, packet and branded products that tend to work out more.

I don't actually have any 'local' shops and the closest are Netto, and/or Asda...(bout 25 min walk to Asda....Netto i only use occasionally as it's crap)......we only have the corner shop !

 

[cesare]

I don't actually have any 'local' shops and the closest are Netto, and/or Asda...(bout 25 min walk to Asda....Netto i only use occasionally as it's crap)......we only have the corner shop !

Yeah I do appreciate how lucky I am, which is why I try and shop locally - I'd hate to lose those shops. The supermarkets have a lot to answer for out in the regions.

 

[rover07]

£2.20 for a litre of organic semi-skimmed!

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I think I'm quite lucky. My local shops are a bit pricier than the supermarkets, but the supermarkets are a bus ride away. And some of the local shops have huge bags of rice and spices at pretty much wholesale prices. The greengrocers, bakers and butchers are cheaper too ... so it really is only the tinned, packet and branded products that tend to work out more.

Well, this is true for me really too - I live near Shepherds Bush market, and I can't really complain if I buy things at the corner shop for more that I could get at the cash and carry if I was arsed to go during the day. Even the tins are cheaper there than they are at the big Morrisons, for everything except the crappest super-value stuff.

Bread, though, I don't know where to get that cheap at all. And I like bread.

 

[cesare]

Well, this is true for me really too - I live near Shepherds Bush market, and I can't really complain if I buy things at the corner shop for more that I could get at the cash and carry if I was arsed to go during the day. Even the tins are cheaper there than they are at the big Morrisons, for everything except the crappest super-value stuff.

Bread, though, I don't know where to get that cheap at all. And I like bread.

Yep, I keep meaning to get a Costco card and do Streetcar once a month. But I don't.

The bakers round here is well cheap. They do filled rolls and hot pasties too. Queues at lunchtime. You can get a cheese and tomato crusty roll & a cheese and onion pasty for a couple of quid. You can chuck your chosen loaf through the slicer as well, which I think is a brilliant idea - want it sliced? Same price but do it yourself.

Even the greengrocer does a hot soup and roll lunchtime service.

 

[Chz]

All the places around here are £1.03 for two pints of organic. Not sure what the regular stuff is - for the 20p extra or whatever, I'll take the organic.

 

[toblerone3]

Bread, though, I don't know where to get that cheap at all. And I like bread.

Vogel bread £1.20 Tescos/Waitrose. Really nice bread seems good value to me. Don't really understand this quest for ultra-cheap bread and expecting it to be nice.

 

[zenie]

59p for a pint.

 

[toblerone3]

59p for a pint.

Thats a 33% markup too much!

 

[zenie]

Thats a 33% markup too much!

Probably, they're lovely men in the little shop though. I usually go to Tesco

 

[Roadkill]

55p a pint in my local corner shop.

 

[Geri]

I'm still annoyed about this. I feel like going round there and having it out with them.

 

[sojourner]

99pmon the four pinter-dead reasonable.

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I never buy just one pint, unless that's the only amount they've got left, so wouldn't know

 

[TitanSound]

49p for a pint of semi skimmed.

 

[zenie]

I'm still annoyed about this. I feel like going round there and having it out with them.

I'm not surprised!

Do you reckon they mispriced it or something? 89p for a pint of milk is a fuckin joke, 59p is too much, I don't shop at my local shop often if I can help it!

 

[sojourner]

I'm still annoyed about this. I feel like going round there and having it out with them.

Go and buy one of those price label sticker things, and mark down everything in the shop

 

[cesare]

I'm still annoyed about this. I feel like going round there and having it out with them.

Print out the thread and take it round

 

[harpo]

89p is ridiculous! 89P???? Kin ell

55p for a pint of milk at the local shop or 45p at the Somerfield a slightly longer walk away.

I always seem to find marked down bread and store it in the freezer. It's fine for toast and stuff. Or there's a Pakistani grocer that sells a huge loaf of sliced crusty white in an unmarked wrapper for about a quid.

 

[Geri]

I'm going to go in there at the weekend and snoop around a bit.

 

[toblerone3]

Maybe some psychological research has been done to the effect that the price of a pint of milk is just below the value which people care about and so small shops attracting people mainly for groceries can get away with whacking a few pennies on the price of a pint of milk.

The article was published in a grocery trade magazine recently.

 

[cesare]

I don't actually mind an extra 10p on a pint of milk and RRP on packets and tins, when you get value stuff to counterbalance it like the big fuck off bags of rice. Or a head of garlic for 18p.

But 89p for a pint of milk is taking the piss.