Simply sign up to the Retail & Consumer industry myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. After 20 years of souring sales, the old-fashioned milk bottle is clinking its way on to the ...

In addition to the fresh, creamy product inside the bottle, Fresh Market customers pay an inclusive $1.50 deposit with the cost of the milk. When the milk is gone, the bottle is returned to the store.

But switching is not cheap. A pint of milk in a glass bottle from a milkman costs around 70p, compared to 50p from a supermarket. Even so, the nation’s largest doorstep service Milk&More has ...

For years, Rickie Honea loved the delivery service that a local dairy provided when she lived in northern Colorado.