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What happened to the morning milkman?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Back in the day you would see them all over if you were up early for work but these days i can’t remember the last time i saw one. Do you still have a doorstep delivery? If not what made you give it up? |
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
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"Back in the day you would see them all over if you were up early for work but these days i can’t remember the last time i saw one. Do you still have a doorstep delivery? If not what made you give it up?"
I still do...milkman is a minger though...shame  |
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Used to until a couple of years ago.
I wanted it delivered every day but they refused to do it... said it wasn't worth their while so I could have 3 pints on a Monday and 2 on a Thursday cause that was convenient for them.
But too many times they'd not deliver it at all, so I'd end up going to the supermarket to get it. Then, when they did bother to deliver, the milk wasn't as fresh as the stuff I could buy in the shops... you'd think it'd be the other way round really.
It was more expensive per pint but I didn't mind paying as I felt it was helping maintain a tradition. But it got too inconvenient that I jacked it in eventually, and now just buy some Cravenfield stuff that seems to last for weeks. |
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"Back in the day you would see them all over if you were up early for work but these days i can’t remember the last time i saw one. Do you still have a doorstep delivery? If not what made you give it up?I still do...milkman is a minger though...shame "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I would guess that it had a lot to do with th big supermarkets selling milk at less than the cost of production (as a loss leader) and the general societal trend away from using specialist outlest (grocers, butchers, baker etc) and doing one 'big' shop every week...... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Ah yeah those were the days, you don't see them anymore. You used to hear the familiar sound of the milk float and bottles jangling. If you were really crazy and lived a rock n roll lifestyle, you'd get home at the same time as the milkman was out and about, heels clacking on the pavement in tune with the bottles jangling. Music to the ears it was, like Beethovens 5th.
Just not the same nowadays is it, everything good has to come to an end. Bet they had some stories to tell too. Seeing Mr Davies scurrying out of Mrs Potter's from No 23 ten minutes before Mr Potter finished his night shift. Ah those were the days ..... |
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By *teborahCouple
over a year ago
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In a world where all the eco mentalists constantly keep banging on about recycling would it not make more sense to stop the sale or limit the sale of milk in huge plastic containers from supermarkets and encourage private dairies to start back up delivering milk in glass bottles that can be reused many times (the ultimate recycle) using electric powered vehicles to deliver them right to our door (very green) ask any eco mentalist who drives a Prius how green electric vehicles are and finally look how many new real jobs it would create. Oh yeah I forgot that is how it used to be! And they call everything we do progress  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Back in the day you would see them all over if you were up early for work but these days i can’t remember the last time i saw one. Do you still have a doorstep delivery? If not what made you give it up?"
Supermarkets and corner shops. Easier to pick up a pint when you want.
I do see the milkman on occasion, Milk & More. It used to be Unigate and Express. |
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I have a milkman and he has a float. Been known to see him at silly o clock when I'm no my way back from a night out or Chams lol.
Same farm and chap has been delivering to me and family since I was a baby. My dad refuses to have milk from a plastic carton so long may the milkman live. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We used to have the milkman,but whenever he came to deliver he used to set the dogs off barking,which in turn woke the little ones up! not good at four or five in the morning!, explained to him the situation ever so nicely which he seemed to understand, but then later noticed after wr had stopped chatting that he had wrote the words fat bitch on my front door! The cheek of it lol! i was eight months pregnant,not sure what his exuse was! |
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"We used to have the milkman,but whenever he came to deliver he used to set the dogs off barking,which in turn woke the little ones up! not good at four or five in the morning!, explained to him the situation ever so nicely which he seemed to understand, but then later noticed after wr had stopped chatting that he had wrote the words fat bitch on my front door! The cheek of it lol! i was eight months pregnant,not sure what his exuse was!"
Thats awful, I hope you cancelled the order?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My mom has milk delivered dialy... And they sell other basics... He will even find stuff that he doesnt sell... Magic
(Just had to pay him...  Thatll teach me not to visit... Or at least not to be outside for a ciggie at silly oclock... ) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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They are about but i wouldn't use them 1. some reason i really don't like the milk out of the glass bottles
2. it cost way too must
3. most of all as the milk got delivered after leaving for work so didn't last very long.
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Still got a milkman here, yes the supermarket stuff lasts longer an is cheaper but it is processed to death. I don't want that, I want milk that has been filtered chilled and bottled nothing else.
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"The same thing happened to milkmen as happened to a lot of local/ village shops and services
Big faceless SUPERMARKETS "
one of those big faceless supermarkets started out as a dairy delivering milk, as in ASDA, it stands for Assosciated Daires. guess they got their business plan right |
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I (Mr as you may have guessed) was a milkman for over 10 years. In the late 80s over 90% of households had a delivery by the late 90s its was about 20%. As the supermarkets could sell it below the price I bought it, it was time to get out and find a proper job lol. xxx |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The same thing happened to milkmen as happened to a lot of local/ village shops and services
Big faceless SUPERMARKETS
one of those big faceless supermarkets started out as a dairy delivering milk, as in ASDA, it stands for Assosciated Daires. guess they got their business plan right"
Yes I'm aware of that and also that supermarkets do get there business plans right
Just a pity it's to the detrement of others xx |
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"The same thing happened to milkmen as happened to a lot of local/ village shops and services
Big faceless SUPERMARKETS
one of those big faceless supermarkets started out as a dairy delivering milk, as in ASDA, it stands for Assosciated Daires. guess they got their business plan right
Yes I'm aware of that and also that supermarkets do get there business plans right
Just a pity it's to the detrement of others xx "
so true one of my Uncles was a milkman back in the 60s, / 70s had an electric powered hand cart for his round, that was for the CO-OP
it is a dying breed indeed, doing the job i do i see milkmen around quite a lot, and they are getting fewer and fewer by the week.
my business is slowly going the way same way as they are, within 10 years i fully expect mine to be gone,teh companies i hold contracts with are already cutting back on their own staff at senior level as well as shop floor,
am already looking at new oppertunities, i just have to find the right one |
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By *ezebelWoman
over a year ago
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I struggled for ages to find a milkman a couple of years ago and I loved having milk delivered in bottles, even though it did cost a bit more.
But Im away from home so much with work it became a pain having to keep cancelling and then restarting the delivery so I gave up, but might look into it again a soon as Im home long enough. Try to support local businesses and all that... |
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"We used to have the milkman,but whenever he came to deliver he used to set the dogs off barking,which in turn woke the little ones up! not good at four or five in the morning!, explained to him the situation ever so nicely which he seemed to understand, but then later noticed after wr had stopped chatting that he had wrote the words fat bitch on my front door! The cheek of it lol! i was eight months pregnant,not sure what his exuse was!
Thats awful, I hope you cancelled the order? "
I think that if you're 8 months pregnant then it's too late to cancel that order. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Back in the day you would see them all over if you were up early for work but these days i can’t remember the last time i saw one. Do you still have a doorstep delivery? If not what made you give it up?"
We still have our milkman although he says when he retires it will probably stop as you struggle to sell rounds these days. |
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It'a a bit of a phallacy to suggest that supermarkets sell milk for less than the cost of production, on BBC Countryfile a few months ago they dispelled that myth,
Farmers are paid around 26p a litre for milk, further treatment of that milk and packaging/delivering push the price up to around 38p a litre.
Asda for example charge around 50p/52p a litre for semi skimmed milk....that's a decent mark up compared to many groceries.
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
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Another that has a milk delivery! I don`t like buying the big plastic bottles of milk because we don`t use a huge amount and it would go off otherwise. Not only that but for me it`s a pain having to keep visiting the super-racket to keep a supply of smaller bottles. My milkman will deliver other stuff to and we try and spend a little extra at Xmas with him. Yes, he may not be the cheapest, but what price is convenience? |
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