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i'd love to be able to pay a bit more and support certain things, but at the end of the day, i have to make my pay packet support my family. if that means buying $1 milk, then thats what i'll do. i work in an industry that is heading the same way as automotive except without the subsidies and the media attention (like a million industries out there). pay has been stagnant for over 10years but inflation hasn't, so as much as its nice to have 'ideals', the reality is very different for many families. |
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Been buying long-life milk for the last 10 years.
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Its not cool to be a tight ****. Pay for good quality food and enjoy proper nutrition and keep fellow aussies in a job. Just rememer it may be your job on the block next...
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I've had similar discussions with people...screaming about saving aussie jobs, but would buy the aussie made milk then skip the check-out-chick (ANOTHER JOB DYING) and use the self checkout.
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Dosn't matter what you buy, you are still keeping aussie jobs going. Buy the cheaper milk there are the workers at the supermmarkets, truckies and farmers employed to do that. Buy a branded bottle of milk and same thing.
The problem is the price some buyers pay the farmers.
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Thing is, boycotting home brand milk does nothing, and I would be very careful telling our supermarkets I want to pay more for something. We don't exactly have a lot of competition in our grocery sector. |
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Ghia5L Well said mate. I haven't heard anyone else explain it better yet.
I am a Dairy Farmer, fortunately for me I'm currently paid a wage as a worker while managing the farm. Simply put, we are Fonterra suppliers, they dropped the years price from $5.60 per kg milk solids to $5 even, that equates to being paid about $1.91 per kg for May and June. That makes our milk worth about 14 cents per litre while it costs around about 40 cents to produce. It doesn't give us much incentive to keep going...
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Semi related, i have to laugh at the people who used to say "I only buy Golden North cause its from the country, so its creamier". No princess, its made on the same production line as Pura and all the other milks (Coles and Woolies included, all that changes is the carton/label). Not sure about this watered down **** as i havn't work there for a few years, but back then people had the same argument as i'm hearing now that they can taste a difference when it all came out the same vat! |
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Ok this has me intrigues, I am going shopping on Wednesday or Thursday, we been buying Coles brand milk for the last four years.
I will buy our normal Coles brand as well as one or two name brands and will let the kids do a blind taste test. Will report back when it's done. Can't see there being any difference in taste, but then agin I don't drink milk, milk is for baby cows and I am certainly not one of those..
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Full Cream : Pura, IGA, Drake, Foodland, Golden North, Coles, Woolies Skim: Pura Skimmer, and all the above 'light' versions. The only different ones were Pura Light Start, etc. Used to always hear the same ****, that people can taste the difference. |
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We been using Coles branded milk for four years exclusively and have had no complaints. We also buy Coles brand rice and pasta which tastes exactly the same as branded rice and pasta which we have also bought when on half price special. Bit off topic I love buying the Coles half price specials but I get annoyed as I know they are still making money on selling us the stuff at half price, so imagine the huge profit margins on branded products, all you are paying for is a glossy label and brand name, the product inside is no different.
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So anyone suggesting they taste different has a very active imagination.
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Same thing with people buying car batteries from me, they complain about prices (even though I'm better priced than SCA/Bursons for the same battery) but I stock a massive range of Australian made Century batteries (I carry the second largest range of them in Victoria). 'Oh thats expensive'. Yes it is, because its made in Brisbane, not Thailand or China. |
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Lot of experts, what tastes good might taste like crap to you.
Do a taste test on 1000 people you'll get different answers. Drink what you want I say
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Thats it, most customers think they know better than anyone else but really know SFA
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Well it is the exact same product so can not possibly taste any different, there is a 100,000 litre vat of milk that gets bottled into two litre bottles, then it goes through a labelling machine, some bottles get labeled with Dairy Farmers Glossy label and sold for $5 while some bottles get labeled with a plain Coles or Woolies label and get sold at $2.
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You can argue all you want, but to me it does taste different, my milk has cream on the top and i like it more. You can drink whatever you want, but what I drink tastes nicer
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My post was merely to show that of the products i listed, the same thing was said. The following was a direct quote, at the time i worked in the factory, and watched them change the labels on the bottles (or the cartons) after a select qty was reached. "i prefer the Golden North cause its from the country, so its creamier". |
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I remember an experiment where people swore blind that red coloured water was sweeter than green coloured water, even though it tasted exactly the same. This must be the same thing, people getting extra money taken out of their pocket convince themselves that they are getting creamier milk ![]() Of course it does....because somehow the label changes the taste...
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And the bottom of the contract page would've said something like this: * The price offered may be subject to the whims of the powers that be. Actually there is a direct comparison to the situation the dairy farmers are suffering, although the results aren't as immediately catastrophic: Your home loan contract that you have with the bank. Remember last year when the RBA interest rate was kept on hold for the 1000th month in a row, and all of a sudden a few of the banks decided to up their interest rates due to a whole range of asterisks? *Operating costs *Revenue losses *Market conditions *Random excuse My thoughts on banks tends to be four asterisks. ****s. Although in my above example the dairy farmers thought they were in a fixed-rate agreement rather than the variable-rate agreement example I've described above. |
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