Shatto Milk Home Delivery rolling into the Northland

The Shoal Creek area will be the next neighborhood to get Shatto Milk Home Delivery.

After testing the delivery service in the Leavenworth area in October, the company asked Kansas City-area customers to decide the next route. The Shoal Creek area was selected with 45 homes signing up for the service, which will start on Nov. 18. Customers who bring another customer on board get a $5 credit off their next order.

Matt Shatto, son of the founders of Shatto Milk Co. in Osborn, Mo., launched the delivery service and now has more than 200 customers in Leavenworth — with no advertising or promotion.

He plans to add another Kansas City route within a month. Customers can “vote” for Shatto to come to their neighborhood by signing up on the company’s website. Shatto will ask some questions that might seem unrelated, like what your favorite color is, but customers may find a gift — perhaps in their favorite color — one day.

Shatto’s customers not only like the convenience of home delivery, they said they want to support local businesses. And they like the experience of having a fresh product delivered to their porch and the sense of nostalgia for the days of milkmen.

Delivery customers can now place recurring orders online and can add or delete items each week. They can order a variety of Shatto products, as well as a variety of locally made products, including farm-fresh eggs from Campo Lindo Farms in Lathrop, Mo., freshly roasted coffee from Thou Mayest Coffee Roasters in Kansas City and Maps Coffee Roasters in Lenexa, bread from Farm to Market Bread Co., boneless butterfly pork chops and Kansas City strip steaks from Paradise Locker Meats in Trimble, Mo., greens from Cal-Ann Farms in Basehor, Kan., and dog food from Three Dog Bakery.

Shatto delivers the orders once a week to a standard cooler or a custom Shatto milk box (starting at $48.99) on the customer's front porch. The company asks for a $10 minimum order and a fee of $2.99 per delivery.

According to USDA statistics, in the 1950s more than half of consumer milk sales were from home delivery services. By 2005 — the last year the USDA included home-delivered milk in its statistics — it had dropped to only 0.4 percent of sales.

This story was originally published November 12, 2015 at 1:27 PM with the headline "Shatto Milk Home Delivery rolling into the Northland."