[OKC] Farmer's 24 hour milk filling station a hit

[Shauna Lawyer Struby]

Hat tip to Karen Miles for bringing this to our attention.  What a great idea! Milk anyone?

 

Farmer's 24 hour milk filling station a hit

 

Wed, Sep 8 2010

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German dairy farmer has come up with a novel way to

drum up new business -- he opened a "milk filling station."

 

The "Milchtankstelle" near Cologne in the town of Neunkirchen-Seelscheid

dispenses the output of 78 cows from a stainless steel vending machine.

Customers can either bring their own empty containers or buy milk

bottles to fill up.

 

"I only had a few customers before I opened the station because they had

to come at set milking times, which was a problem," dairy farmer Bruno

Stauf told Reuters. "Now they can buy my milk whenever they want."

The milk filling station is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

 

Customers can select the amount of milk they want to purchase at a price

of 70 cents per liter. They insert the money, put their container under

the nozzle and press a button.

 

"We were no longer getting very much for our milk from the local dairy,"

Stauf said, who like many dairy farmers in Germany has felt the squeeze

of downward pressure on prices at discount supermarkets.

 

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