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All those things are a hangover from the days when a fridge was a luxury and a home freezer was unheard of. There is no milk delivery where we live and we long ago got used to keeping larger amounts of it in the fridge (occasionally in the freezer). It is now just part of our regular shop, and ironically as we get all our shopping delivered from Asda, we do now get a home delivery of milk, along with everything else.

Bringing milk to your door every day in single pint bottles is simply an inefficient and expensive way of doing it. Newer, more efficient ways of operating always replace older, less efficient ones in the end.

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And noisy way. Pesky milkman clanging glass bottles together at 6am in the morning! Still see a milk float around here occasionally and I think his only customers are old people who can't get out and have always had their milk delivered anyway.

It is sad to no longer see the three wheeler floats about. Got to drive one of them about a bit when I was about 10 or 11 :)

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my milkman has gone all plastic no chinking milk float and no reassuring sound when the bottles hit the door step just three little 1 pint plastic containers at 79 pence each .

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We use Morrisons and have done for years. The store is a 5 minuets walk from our house, Tesco on the other hand is much further away and the only time i visit Tesco's is to use there car park when i watch Warrington at home in super League as there next to each other :)

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tesco is three hundred mtrs away i can't cope with that in the morning ;)

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No wonder.

Someone in my family got an new card offering them 50 extra points per week for just buying The Sun and The Sun on Sunday every weekend.

By the end of the offer they got £6 on Tesco card.

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A few years ago, we had both a Tescos and Sainsburys within walking distance. Then, Tescos closed and is now an Iceland. We are in a very wealthy area, so, TBH, I don't understand why Tescos shut. A few years after Tesco shut, Safeway built a huge new store (which became a Morrisons and ultimately a second Sainsburys, even though it's only half a mile from the original) and we got a Marks and Spencers food hall. All of a sudden, Tescos noticed that we are a potentially profitable area for them, and built a superstore about 2.5 to 3 miles away, and several "Tesco Express" stores, one less than half a mile from the superstore (which is open 24 hours a day).

Annoyingly, that Tesco is too far for me to walk with our weekly shop (I can't drive), and the Tesco express stores are only really any use for picking up the odd thing.

I say annoyingly because I actually prefer Tesco to Sainsburys. Unfortunately, I have to do the weekly shop at Sainsburys as I don't like Iceland, and Marks and Spencer has almost no fresh produce, and is a little expensive for the weekly shop.

However, I have no sympathy for Tesco. The same thing is happening to them that they have been doing to local shops for decades.

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That's why I think these offers can be a con, and only really save you money if you'd have bought the product *anyway*. If they'd have been planning to buy the Sun anyway, that extra £6 off is a bonus. If they weren't, they'd have spent more buying the papers than they'd saved.

I used to have a Sony credit card, which offered so many points per purchase, and these points could be used to buy Sony goods. I thought it seemed a good deal, then worked out how much I would have to spend to get something free.. It worked out I'd have to spend over £60,000 on my card to get a low end 32 inch Sony TV.

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I don't use any of those store cards. Most don't mind that they track where you are when you spend your money or that they know everything you buy and can profile your household based on that. I bet a good few would be worried when the details are sold on to other companies for various things though. Prefer not to have a few pound off here and there and keep off all these databases and retain a bit of privacy!

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Whilst I agree in general terms about privacy, a store card reveals that I eat food and use petrol and that I need to buy it regularly. I know these places like to collect data and that there's a natural superstition about the intention but I'm not sure it's info that amounts to much in the scheme of things. I suppose they can use it to send me stuff which goes straight in the bin unless it comes with a pre-paid envelope in which case I rip up the stuff and return it :).

Medical/security data is another matter.

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Strange, I use the coupons they send me to save money on the things I buy regularly. I wouldn't throw them in the bin

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Has anyone tasted any difference in milk recently?

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Yeh it tastes like what we used to do years ago.
watered down. 50/50 mix.

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No.

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Don't drink milk. :sick:

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I think you're too old to be still on the teat Gary :D