Tesco to cut price of milk

[Zee]

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.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Zee

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.

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

[Zee]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

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

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

[thenry]

Posters already up in my local Tesco Express.

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

[Taf]

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

[Hom3r]

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.

[Zee]

Originally Posted by martyh

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

not everyone has farmfoods on their doorstep

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.

Originally Posted by Zee

not everyone has farmfoods on their doorstep

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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Originally Posted by RizzyKing

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.

best thing is my wife works there and gets staff discount

they are opening new stores all the time as well

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Kabaal

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.

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.

Originally Posted by Stuart

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.

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.

[Mr Angry]

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

[blackthorn]

Originally Posted by martyh

I bet there's a Tesco near every Farmfoods though

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

Originally Posted by blackthorn

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

where's that then