Village Shops - Milk
Discussion
Hi all, I’ve just bought some milk from my village shop and it’s got me thinking.
Why do they sell 2 litres but not 2.272 litres (4 pints). I know why we sell in litres, but it can’t be too difficult to sell in the same size as supermarkets can it?
For the avoidance of doubt, I have no problem paying the higher price, I just begrudge giving it to my local shopkeeper as she is the grumpiest cow in the village and just likes to pick a fight with anyone who disagrees with her (she’s normally wrong about a lot of things so I usually disagree with her….)
Anyway, I look forward to your replies and being enlightened!
Flipper
Edited for speling misteaks…
Why do they sell 2 litres but not 2.272 litres (4 pints). I know why we sell in litres, but it can’t be too difficult to sell in the same size as supermarkets can it?
For the avoidance of doubt, I have no problem paying the higher price, I just begrudge giving it to my local shopkeeper as she is the grumpiest cow in the village and just likes to pick a fight with anyone who disagrees with her (she’s normally wrong about a lot of things so I usually disagree with her….)
Anyway, I look forward to your replies and being enlightened!
Flipper
Edited for speling misteaks…
Edited by 49Flipper on Thursday 16th September 18:03
49Flipper said:
Hi all, I’ve just bought some milk from my village shop and it’s got me thinking.
Why do they sell 2 litres but not 2.272 litres (4 pints). I know why we sell in litres, but it can’t be too difficult to sell in the size size as supermarkets can it?
For the avoidance of doubt, I have no problem paying the higher price, I just begrudge giving it to my local shopkeeper as she is the grumpiest cow in the village and just likes to pick a fight with anyone who disagrees with her (she’s normally wrong about a lot of things so I usually disagree with her….)
Anyway, I look forward to your replies and being enlightened!
Flipper
Look, you could have lived in an exciting town or City, but instead you have chosen to move to some dead end,middle of nowhere place so you now need to put up with all the inbred natives.Why do they sell 2 litres but not 2.272 litres (4 pints). I know why we sell in litres, but it can’t be too difficult to sell in the size size as supermarkets can it?
For the avoidance of doubt, I have no problem paying the higher price, I just begrudge giving it to my local shopkeeper as she is the grumpiest cow in the village and just likes to pick a fight with anyone who disagrees with her (she’s normally wrong about a lot of things so I usually disagree with her….)
Anyway, I look forward to your replies and being enlightened!
Flipper
Get your own cows and milk them. Or open a competing shop.
It's for the old biddies who aren't physically able to leave the confines of the village to visit a large supermarket for the weekly shop.
They don't tend to consume a huge amount of milk and hate wasting the contents of a bottle so will prefer to buy a slightly smaller bottle and make it last all week.
It's the same reason why you'll find packs of 4 Andrex at an extortionate price. Once you get into that pensioner mindset, you don't want to buy a 16 pack even if it is better value per sheet as you don't want to find somewhere to store the rest. It also gives you an excuse to visit the shop a few times a week, gets you out of the house and to go and bore the ears off the shopkeeper.
They don't tend to consume a huge amount of milk and hate wasting the contents of a bottle so will prefer to buy a slightly smaller bottle and make it last all week.
It's the same reason why you'll find packs of 4 Andrex at an extortionate price. Once you get into that pensioner mindset, you don't want to buy a 16 pack even if it is better value per sheet as you don't want to find somewhere to store the rest. It also gives you an excuse to visit the shop a few times a week, gets you out of the house and to go and bore the ears off the shopkeeper.
Edited by eltawater on Thursday 16th September 23:58
I've always thought of it as a bit of a con, making you think that you're getting four pints for the same kind of money. It's a bit like Pepsi going from a 2L bottle, to a 1.75L bottle, to a 1.5L bottle without the price ever dropping pro rata.
My workmates will happily go to the petrol station next door to our workplace and buy a 2L bottle of milk that's almost on its use by date, for a similar price as the Sainsbury's Local just a few yards down the road who sell a full 4 pinter of fresh milk and can't grasp what the difference is!!!
My workmates will happily go to the petrol station next door to our workplace and buy a 2L bottle of milk that's almost on its use by date, for a similar price as the Sainsbury's Local just a few yards down the road who sell a full 4 pinter of fresh milk and can't grasp what the difference is!!!
OP, what brand milk is it? Our local garage/shop sells Craig's Farm milk in 1 or 2l (I only know this because we ran out so had to get some yesterday...) So I wonder if it's a "premium brand" milking *ahem* profits. I haven't looked but suspect the same bottle will be next to the own brand stuff in the supermarket and the reduced size makes it look better value.
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