I think they have blue and light blue, not 100% sure. Was $1.00 for a while last year, but think they underestimated how much they were going to sell.
Limit of 2 x 2L bottles per family, per day
Gold Card discount is not available for this promotion
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The recall is 18mths old though. Klondyke are one of the regularly cheap brands. Along with Cow & Gate, they regularly get sold at corner dairies for $3 per 2ltr. Same sort of shops that sell $1 pies. Not sure how they compare quality wise, but presume they must meet minimum food standards. Nothing quite beats raw milk, straight from the farmer though.
The milk special was on last week as well. The brand is Green Valley and it includes trim milk.
The milk tastes a bit funny however compared to the cheapest supermarket milk. It has a 'butcher' smell to it, almost as if they bottled the milk inside their stores. I Definitely will not be buying that brand again.
Some of the larger brands use additives such as Permeate to 'stretch' watery milk to get to legal minimum food standards for milk. The three independent brands, including Klondyke and Green Valley, claim not to do this. So in theory, these independent brands should actually be safer.
Odours in milk can come from certain plants (weeds) which the cows each. Some give quite a foul odour to milk. Usually, if the farmer knows his animals have accidentally got into a weed patch, the milk will be withheld from sale.
Milk absorbs odours very easily so even storing it in the vicinity of a strong odour can taint milk. In fairness, might be worth tasting at another time to see if the same impression persists with a different batch. Certainly isn't bottled in store.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&o…
Interesting info, thanks!
Reportedly, the retail markup on the price of milk can be as high as 76%, so they certainly have lots of room to move on price. In some instances, NZ'ders reportedly pay up to 4x the price of milk (NZ milk) sold overseas.
Fonterra and others argue that we should pay parity on global prices, despite the fact that the raw product is much cheaper here. This also affects other industries such as the boutique cheese sector who depend on availability of low cost high quality milk.
The main point here isn't just about milk. It is to challenge the notion that 'cheap' always means a lower quality of product/service. Yes, sometimes it is crap, but not always.
Pricing on retail is far more complex (some might say devious) than a simple markup % over cost and handling. Lots of strategies used to exploit market potential. Splitting of the same product into separate differentially packaged brand with different price pain points to engage different sectors of the market is one example.
Grey Traders take advantage of another practice, the selling the same product into different parts of the world at vastly different prices.
All in all, the larger the company, the more likely they will be able to get away with more questionable practices, especially if they significantly influence GDP etc. Govts tend to look the other way and encourage market protection practices which tend to disfavour smaller operators.
So there can be an element of 'Robin Hood' economics to sites like this one. Using crowdsourced information gathering and the agility of social media to maximise our individual purchase power.
Gotta be a good thing. Just need a wee bit more site traffic to bump it past critical mass.
(P.S. Re Green Valley Milk)
Not a bad deal, but I don't think I will be stopping consuming Anchor Organic Milk range for a while:
https://www.cheapies.nz/node/2053
I do miss the Anchor Protein Lite now that $2 off coupon has expired :(
Different coupons will come around, they seem to have offered a lot so far.
I was going to bump the Anchor Organic Milk deal back up with a comment, but comments are closed on it. The deal is still live. There is a problem with these live deals being buried so far back in the pages that they get lost. Must be a way to keep them bubbling to the top of the list every so often?
Best bet would probably be to just give out the link to this page.. We can highlight deals, which bumps them to the top of the homepage for a set amount of time, but it's something we'd rather use sparingly, for example on Friday night or Saturday night, bumping up a good deal for pizza for a few hours.
Cool, be good to be able to filter out expired deals etc.
@Jay:
Can't on tag pages, but we are working on a unified coupon page, which will resolve that issue when it's released.
Brand is Klondyke Fresh Blue (2ltr $2.50)
Also have 1 ltr Long Life milk for $1.