Tesco to cut price of milk
 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...d-farmers.html

What about the farmers? I remember a year ago a story about the way the major supermarket chains (apart from M&S and one of the bigger chains whose name escapes me - might be Morrisons) where forcing farmers into selling milk at a ridiculously low margin to the point where they were simply looking to stop selling it. This move seems good for everyone else, especially those struggling to afford food, but unless the hit is being taken by Tesco and not leading to reduced income for the farmers then it could be damaging in the long run. :erm:

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ASDA do it already :confused:

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As do Iceland, Lidl and Aldi.

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Damiens doing PR for Tesco.

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By criticising them? :confused:

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The point still stands that these companies are probably passing these savings up the supply chain and we should examine how sustainable that is in the long run.

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possible loss leaders

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Devious tactics https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2014/03/13.gif

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That's what I am hoping will happen.

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It's not sustainable and it's nor fair on the farmers but other retailers have been doing it for ages.

Tesco own brand milk is 1.39 for a 4 pint, the creamfeild branded milk they sell, 2% & full fat has been a £1 for quite a while (couple of years or more) also until last week Tesco were selling its own branded milk @ 3 for £3.
Don't take much to work out that it's Tesco BS!

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3 for £3 in Morrisons for years

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Indeed they have so in that time Tesco has been coining it in.

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This reminds me of one of those "support independent local shops" campaigns from a few years ago.

There was one in 2006 and where I lived at the time was a Spar shop about 200 yards away but a few streets over was a large Tesco store. The Spare was obviously more convenient and easier to get to and I was happy to go there if I needed something they probably had. At the time I was on a strict low-fat/calorie diet and need some skimmed milk for a protein shake. The thing was a lot of the time the Spar had run out of theirs. Tesco always had plenty. It's all very well supporting the 'little guy' but when they become unreliable for what you need it's hard to stay loyal to them all the time.

As for the supermarkets and the milk offers, I wouldn't be surprised if this is just a short-term move on the part of Tesco. The large companies obviously have greater buying power to keep prices low but never to the point where the reductions are be expected to be long-term. It's like with their petrol prices: full-page adverts in the papers announcing price drops of a penny a litre, followed by a very quiet and stealth rise by a penny or so.

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Not good unless the farmers are able to sell for a good price and are not the ones to take the hit. I have family in the dairy business and what with TB and not killing badgers, weather, rising costs they really don't need a drop in the price they get for their product.

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It shouldn't affect the farmers, they'll still be selling it to Tesco for the same price. Tesco are lowering the cost via cutting their profits on it is all.

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I work for Tesco and can confirm this is happening very soon as we received in a big poster last week.

Also about 3 weeks ago Creamfields milk was discontinued in our store, possibly for preparation for this.

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If a product has been removed because of this, maybe it is intended to be a long term promotion?

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well according to the poster, it says something like price cut and staying down so will be a long term thing.

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Posters already up in my local Tesco Express.

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£1 for a 4 pint carton of milk is expensive ,Farmfoods sell 2 x 4 pints for £1.60 all the time

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I, and many others I reckon, would prefer it was 25p for a pint. 4 pints is just too much at one time!

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All types of business sell a product at a loss as people will always buy other things.

Look at the consoles I've read that they are all sold at a loss, as they make more money from the games.

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not everyone has farmfoods on their doorstep

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Sadly the nearest farmfoods to us is 12 miles away using one of the worst bus services i've ever known but i'd love to have one in our town as they are a good place for savings enjoy them Marty :). I think this will be a loss leader at worst i cannot see tesco being stupid enough to risk another unhappy farmer situation that they had a few years ago.

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I bet there's a Tesco near every Farmfoods though ;)

The best thing with Farmfoods is you can mix the deals ,for example the milk is £1.60 for 2x 4 pints but if you don't want 2x4 pints you can get a loaf of bread and 1x4 pint of milk for £1.60 if you want

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best thing is my wife works there and gets staff discount :)

they are opening new stores all the time as well

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Have you ever dealt with the large supermarkets? I know people who have supplied to them, and I can tell you that Tesco will almost certainly not be the ones experiencing any losses on this. The suppliers will.

All the large supermarkets take advantage of their dominance in the market to screw suppliers down to the lowest price possible. Often a price that is not actually profitable for the supplier, which puts the supplier in the nasty position of making no profit on a deal, or losing one of their biggest customers.

My family experienced something similar when we had a newsagent in the 80s. News International reduced the cover price of The Sun to below what they were selling it to us wholesale for. They did not reduce their prices, and when we complained, they said the low price of The Sun would attract extra custom, so other products would see increased sales. We were the only newsagent in the area, so that didn't happen and we actually lost over £60,000.

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I think this might well be happening here. We should be more concerned with where our food comes from and ensuring that farming remains a profitable enterprise as the alternative could be worse. It's difficult to argue against a price cut when people are visiting food banks, makes me sound rather dismissive of poverty and precious about food, but farmers being run out of business is a long-term negative for us all. We could see produce being made en-masse by chains themselves and seeing a ruthless efficiency, and resultant lack of care and attention, being introduced at the supply end of the food chain. Look at the horse meat scandal for where that can lead too.

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With the advent of and increase in "super dairies" it's only going to get worse for your average dairy farmer.

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We`ve got a farmfoods where I live but no sign of a Tesco anywhere here.

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where's that then

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Hopefully we'll get a farmfoods at some point but for now will continue shopping where we do haven't shopped at tesco since the whole chicken saga many years ago when a family friend nearly went out of business because he was contracted to tesco. They are not a very pleasant company to deal with if your a supplier and were a lot worse then the company he ended up with which made up our mind on where to shop. Trouble is for the vast majority all that matters is how much they pay and how any money saved is needed elsewhere it's hard to slate people for that. It would be much better if some company's out there spent less time and effort on slick PR and actually got the balance right for everyone nice pipe dream but I can hope.

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Another solution would be for farmers to be able to sell "farm gate milk" at a price they can control. You get nice, fresh, unpasteurised milk (still chilled) and the farmer gets a way to cut the middlemen out.

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Farmers can already do this as far as I am aware? It's just not that popular nor convenient and it's raw milk is a bit of a niche taste.

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People cannot see this little ad from Tesco, They will reduce the price of milk and then pout the price up on something else.

I am getting totally fed up (l was going to use another word), Tesco, Asda and Morrison are very good at 'conning' the customer on prices. They reduce price on one thing, but put the price up on something else.

I did buy Bavaria non alcolhol from ASDA and it used to cost £1.29 for four bottles. Becuase it became popular, they increased it to £3.50 and there wasn't any deals.

Tesco sold Newcastle Brown for 4.50 for four, now they have increased it by a pound.

The only people that will suffer in the milk price is Tesco are Farmers.

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I used to get milk delivered, but haven't in over a year, so decided to check how much the milk delivery company charges for milk

4 pint semi skimmed Tesco - £1
4 pint semi skimmed milkandmore.co.uk - £2.25

Massive difference in price.

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So its nothing to do with the cost increase to the brewery then?? their costs for labour and ingrediants have probably gone up hence the increase not just cause the supermarkets felt like raising the prices or something was as you think it was popular.

With the milk, the supermarkets are probably hoping people will ccome for the cheap milk and buy other stuff while there. They don't just put prices up for the hell of it as something else is on offer.

Iceland have done £1 milk for ages, but the 6 pint bottle is still around £1.90 and the 2 pint is 90p. So while one product is sold at a loss others are still the price they have been for a while.

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The farmers who supply milk to Tesco are paid a guaranteed price. Their milk is actually segregated - the dairies have dedicated silos for 'Tesco milk' & tankers that only collect milk from Tesco farms.

The dairies will be the ones who 'suffer', as they will be getting a reduced price for processing & bottling the milk.

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It seems Tesco one of the big four have still not worked out why customers are deserting them for the discounters and the premium supermarkets.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27046105

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Almost always cheaper to buy loose rather than pre-packed.

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With Lidl it's not so much that their products are particularly cheaper but that they are better quality for the same prices that you pay at Tesco or Asda.

Luckily I can visit both Asda and Lidl and B&Ms all in one big huge shop as they are all within walking distance.Plus I can get the cheapest petrol in the area from Asda.The only reason I ever visit the new Tesco in town is because it's quieter and it's not far from the local recycling centre and the garage where the East Europeans offer a £5 car wash..

When I want something really special then I pay the extra and go to Waitrose.;)

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Indeed the big four have still not realised how much the market is changing as the public wise up to how much they are actually being conned.

At the moment we are still doing a little shopping at Sainsburys but we have realised that if we spend a fiver at Waitrose and show them your Waitrose card you get a free hot drink and free newspaper and seeing we have two cards that means two free hot drinks and two free newspapers and their essential range is good value as well.

Yes Lidl and Aldi have come a long way and we picked up some good bargains in there as well plus B&Ms have some good discount stuff as well.

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I think the problem is the big supermarkets failed to accurately predict the public's perception and subsequent uptake of discount stores. Also the fact that Lidl etc operate in a different business strategy doesn't help. Seeing as the economic downturn (which drove people towards cheaper stores) is here to stay for a while I reckon Aldi, Lidl etc over the next decade will turn in to major players in grocery shopping. Perhaps not as big as Tesco but certainly to have them referred to as part of the new 'Big 5'.

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I have to be honest in that I cannot see any reason for me to use one of the discount shops unless it was a one-off due to being nearby or they had a special offer on (as seems to be the case with their running equipment). I've tried them before but whereas the things I've bought were cheap (in price) enough, the taste often differed from what I'm used to. Also they seem to do a lot of "once it's gone it's gone" items which means the staff often don't know if they'll be back, most of the time they'll never get them again. Plus my staff discount means I don't really need to use price as a reason to shop there.

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So how much more milk gets wasted now? When you see 2 pints of milk in tesco for 89p but 4 pints for £1, obviously you are going to pick up the 4 pints. Fussy with milk here and prefer it fresh so find we are always throwing a pint of it away for a fresh bottle. Still cheaper to get the 4 pinter for the 3 pints we use in that time though.

I shop in Marks & Sparks and waitrose mostly but don't buy their milk. Marks has not changed the price of their milk and waitrose does it for £1 if you have their waitrose card. Won't use any store cards due to the way they track and sell all your information to everyone under the sun.

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I just use my Sainsburys staff discount card for all my shopping as I cannot be bothered with shopping around plus it is more convenient for me to buy under one roof, anyway 9 times out of 10 I get brand match off my next shopping trip, I have had as much as £8.00 off my next shop. Don't get me wrong if I run out of milk then I go to Farmfoods where they sell it at a £1.00 or two for £1.60, but like Qtx I do wonder how much milk gets wasted now. Maybe I would buy milk at a £1 more often if Lidl, Aldi and Tesco were nearby.

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Out where I am the supermarket choice is limited to a small co-op (ex Somerfield) who's only saving grace is that it has a car park. It never has what you want in stock (e.g. they don't stock more than two pringles flavours unless there's an offer) and prices that aren't overtly expensive, but you do notice the difference when you shop at a larger store. The other town shop is a SPAR, which is OK but doesn't have a car park, which is a problem when your doing a big shop.

The massive growth however has been in home delivery from Tesco, Sainsbury's and ASDA. None of them has a store within 30 miles but all are now offering home delivery. Considering the charge is about £3 and saves you a good two hours (and that £3 probably doesn't even cover the fuel to get your car there) I can see why so many are taking this option.

Regarding milk and bread however, I always shop at the local pub. After the village shop closed down they decided to open in the mornings as a newsagents and shop, and I always buy milk and bread there as its much nicer quality than supermarket stuff and it supports a community asset.

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Heard on the radio this morning that the richest people in Germany are the 2 brothers who own Aldi.

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Here we are Sir.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi

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A billion is a thousand millions. and between them both they have about 40 thousand million.

and I bet they hardly spend any of it. saving it all up till they die.

when they and others like them could do something with it.

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Tesco used the wrong cows in their milk advert...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-26650621

:rofl:

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:LOL:

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Not very good at advertising are they, remember the burgers :erm: I seem to recall they used the wrong animal there too. ;)

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For a company once considered the darling of the city Tesco has fallen down a few rungs of the ladder and the way it is going it still has some falling to come.

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Thank you ... :)

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Tesco decline 'worst in 40 years'

http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/tesco-decl...-in-40-years-2

Its going to take a fair while to turn this ship around as they have totally underestimated the discounters in these last few years.

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What goes around comes around.

30 years ago Tesco's shut down all of their outlets in my town and the next town. I had to travel miles if I wanted to use a Tesco which at the time was my favourite supermarket...However Asda,Safeways(Morrisons) Waitrose and the Co-op were able to set up in the area instead.Lidl,Aldi and B&M arrived even later.

Now Tesco have come slinking back into the area having built two huge supermarket as well as a few of the express shops and they are hardly used.Indeed one of their hypermarkets is going to close..IF they had kept a toe in the door so to speak maybe they would have more of a share of the local trade than they can generate in competition to all the other supermarkets that saw an opportunity in my locale and exploited it.

We use Tesco for convenience, it's a 2 minute drive or a 5 min walk. Up until about 12 months ago Tesco prices were quite competitive, since then prices have increased to a point where we'll pop in for milk, bread and staple food but shop elsewhere, Asda or Aldi.
I have seen prices hiked up for certain goods by over 30% overnight, and that is stuff I buy (or did)
IMO Tesco are not happy being a grocery store anymore and it's that part of their business model that is creating their greatest loss.
Our store seems to have less footfall than it did a year or so ago. Who knows maybe the big 4 will become the big 3.

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I still use the express shop for milk and a few bits bit not much else. It seems they inflate the price of an item and then give you discount if you buy two, so unless you buy in bulk the prices of most things have gone up considerably.

It's annoying seeing one day bacon for £2.20, then the next day it's £2.50 with an offer of buying two packs for £4.50 (not actual prices but to give an idea). Still works out you pay more per pack with the offer than you did the day before. So much of that going on I don't buy out of principal.

A 3.7% drop in sales may be a lot of money but they are still making huge amount of profits.

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In the last few years they have lost 10 per cent of their share of the market and yes they are still making considerable profits but if the big ship keeps on sailing in the same direction then it is heading straight into a iceberg because if it does not adapt soon those huge profits can disappear very quickly in a quickly changing market

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Our local Tesco is in the middle of a huge refit, so the whole place is in disarray. It takes ages to find what you want, so footfall has dropped a lot I reckon.

Loads of their staff are just hanging around to give customers directions to items.....

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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

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Are you sure? :shocked: