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From: Steve Firth on 23 Feb 2007 08:31 On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:13:53 GMT, Adrian wrote: > cupra (NOcupra.sSPAM(a)gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they > were saying : > >>>> Yep - visit a dairy too and you'll see the same milk going into >>>> 'premium' and 'economy' brands! > >>> Really? Even the Organic or Jersey milk? How about the goat's milk? > >> Normal cows milk, same bottles but different supermarkets.... > > Ah. But I've never seen multiple brands of "normal cow milk" in the same > stores... Not like baked beans. Asda do well on this, the milk they offer at their stores in Hampshire comes from ... Hampshire. They identify which farm supplied the Asda branded milk at each store. I suppose being "Associated Dairies" menas they have some interest in dairy products because they don't seem to do the same with other food (they sell American watercress in the middle of the UKs biggest watercress growing area). Also being AsDa the cheese on sale is iffy, and they tend not to do good version of foreign cheese, which is where Waitrose excels.
From: Conor on 23 Feb 2007 09:15 In article <th856i2gxhr1$.xpjacjiidvhg.dlg(a)40tude.net>, Steve Firth says... > > Asda do well on this, the milk they offer at their stores in Hampshire > comes from ... Hampshire. They identify which farm supplied the Asda > branded milk at each store. > That'll be a good trick. I'd love to know how they manage to do that. Working at the sharp end, all deliveries from various farms go into the same silos. Takes several "farm collection" tankers to fill a silo and you won't find a dairy farm that'll fill more than a couple of tankers at the very most per day. So what that means is the milk that came from Farmer Giles farm is also mixed with the milk from Farmer Joes. The Arla dairy at Stourton which directly supplies Asda stores has milk coming in from all over Yorkshire and Lancashire. It's a hell of a large place and the bottling plant is a sight to see. -- Conor Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
From: Conor on 23 Feb 2007 09:16 In article <1bj7eeyhmk1ub.r4ikea84btw6.dlg(a)40tude.net>, Steve Firth says... > On 23 Feb 2007 04:24:15 -0800, conkersack(a)yahoo.com wrote: > > > Lidl's a great supermarket, the products they have are good quality, > > Drivel. Lidl have been caught passing off products in the past and I doubt > that they have given up their ways. For example Lidl sell what they claim > is Italian olive oil at less than the cost of producing the oil. How can > they do that, I wonder? > Ask UK dairy farmers, they'll gladly tell you. -- Conor Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
From: SteveH on 23 Feb 2007 09:31 Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dave Plowman (News) (dave(a)davenoise.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding > much like they were saying : > > > And anyone who knows Morrison also knows they don't seem to sell what > > the average person wants. They may be cheap but that's not enough. The > > one in Balham only lasted a few months before being sold to Waitrose - > > there is a Sainsbury across the road and they couldn't compete. > > ITYF that was probably more to do with the Office of Fair Trading than the > success or otherwise of that particular store as a Morrison. Not with the London high-street stores. Safeway had a particular niche in London - small, but very busy and successful high-street stores. Morrisons didn't understand either the customers or the concept behind these stores so sold them to people who did. -- SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo' www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - Hongdou GY200 - Alfa 75 TSpark Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE - COSOC KOTL BOTAFOT #87 - BOTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #
From: conkersack on 23 Feb 2007 09:50
On 23 Feb, 13:10, Steve Firth <%ste...(a)malloc.co.uk> wrote: > On 23 Feb 2007 04:24:15 -0800, conkers...(a)yahoo.com wrote: > > > Lidl's a great supermarket, the products they have are good quality, > > Drivel. [snip tale of oily woe] Ah, well, I should probably point out that I don't tend to buy things like that from supermarkets, I had in mind things like the packaged food that proper food shops don't sell, i.e. pizzas for a Friday night snack, and biscuits and the like. So fair enough about your claim, I've no direct experience with that (one has contacts for fine foods, donchya know). However, I'd stand by my claim in terms of milk, drinks, etc. And of course, an allotment means that anything vegetibilous bought anywhere just can't compete. I reached a gastronomic nadir on Wednesday night when a tomato (out of season, grown in Holland - I didn't buy them) passed my lips; it was hideous, had to spit it out. I'm not afraid of being a food snob at all. Thinking about it, my idea of what most people buy at the supermarket probably bears no relationship to what 'they' actually buy. Still, I continue to rate Lidl for the stuff I actually do buy there. |