The soaring price of milk, along with the likes of cheese and eggs, had pushed food inflation to its highest level for 14 years. Coupled with falling fuel prices, shoppers could now face spending more on pints of milk than filling up their car, with some retailers charging more per litre for the drink.
The average price per pint of milk has risen by two-thirds in the past year - to 86p (£1.50 a litre). Some smaller branches of the bigger retailers have been spotted selling single pints for as much as £1.05, slightly under £1.85 a litre.
While it will generally be cheaper to buy milk in bigger quantities, this is impractical for many people living alone. On-demand grocery delivery service Getir, a Turkish start-up founded in 2015, is offering a free bottle of milk delivered to your door when you spend a minimum of £20.
This offer is available on Getir’s app while stocks last. The milk products on offer are:
Cravendale Whole MIlk (2L)
Oatly Oat Drink Barista Edition Long Life (1L)
Cravendale Semi Skimmed Milk (1L)
Getir houses over 1,500 everyday products and aims to deliver your groceries within minutes, with no need to book a slot. In the UK, it currently delivers to households in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, Southampton, Sheffield, Portsmouth, Nottingham, Bradford, Leeds, Cambridge, and Leicester.
You can see if they deliver to your address by downloading the app and adding your location to find out. The tech company also operates in all 81 cities of Turkey, as well as select locations in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and the United States.
Getir has expanded rapidly in its seven-years of operations having claimed to ‘revolutionised’ last-minute delivery. With a real-time inventory, they have a ‘no substitutions’ policy and deliver from 8am to midnight.
