Aldi: Again – discounter raises prices for this product again

Created: 2022-02-18Updated: 2022-02-18, 09:05

By: Marten Kopf

The per capita consumption of dairy products is increasing.

After Aldi had already increased the price for drinking milk in January, the discounter is now doing it again.

Consumers now have to dig deeper into their pockets for an important staple food.

As early as January, the world's largest discounter chain Aldi* had increased the price for milk in the lowest price range by 3 cents*.

You have to say “only” because the food retail trade had initially vehemently opposed this actually small increase.

Good for the customers, but for milk producers a much clearer price jump would have been existentially necessary.

But he didn't come.

As HEIDELBERG24 * already reported in January, Aldi - like more and more large retail chains in Germany - wants to gradually ban milk from their refrigerated shelves *.

The background is the "change of mind"* that began in June 2021, which is intended to focus more on goods from Germany on the one hand and to set an example for more animal welfare on the other.

At the same time, at least that's what the discounter says, they want to strengthen German agriculture.

Milk at the discounter: Aldi increases prices again

However, this is sometimes met with fierce criticism from agricultural associations.

The Bavarian Farmers' Association, for example, speaks of a "slap in the face to the smaller farm structures"* in an open letter dated February 9th.

The waiver of own-brand drinking milk at husbandry levels 1 by 2024 and private-label drinking milk at husbandry levels 3 and 4 by 2030, as announced in current Aldi advertisements, particularly affects smaller farms.

The delisting of husbandry level 1 is a discrediting of the high legal requirements for animal husbandry.

Now, however, Aldi seems to be taking the farmers a step further: As the Association of Bavarian Milk Producers (VMB) announced in a press release on Tuesday (February 15), the retail giant will increase its milk prices again - and this time even more significantly than in January.

The prices for drinking milk will be raised by a full 5 cents per liter.

Own brand whole milk now costs 88 cents, the low-fat variant is on the shelf for 80 cents.

However, only the prices for conventional drinking milk, i.e. fresh, ESL and UHT milk, will be adjusted.

The own-brand organic milk still costs 99 cents in the low-fat version and 1.09 euros per liter in the whole milk version.

Dairy products at Aldi: prices are rising – farmers are left empty-handed

For milk producers whose milk goes to drinking milk manufacturers for processing, there is now at least a little more hope of a faster milk price adjustment upwards, according to the assessment of the VMB.

According to the Federal Ministry of Food and Economics, 4.2 million tons of drinking milk were available for consumption in 2020.

Per capita consumption was 49.9 kg and thus slightly higher than in the previous year (+ 0.8 percent).

Overall, the cost of dairy products (including butter, yoghurt and the like) for consumers increased by an average of 10.1 percent in 2020, according to the Federal Statistical Office.

However, very little of it reaches the farms.

(mko/PM) *HEIDELBERG24 is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA