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Originally Posted by Stuart
Have you ever dealt with the large supermarkets? I know people who have supplied to them, and I can tell you that Tesco will almost certainly not be the ones experiencing any losses on this. The suppliers will.
All the large supermarkets take advantage of their dominance in the market to screw suppliers down to the lowest price possible. Often a price that is not actually profitable for the supplier, which puts the supplier in the nasty position of making no profit on a deal, or losing one of their biggest customers.
My family experienced something similar when we had a newsagent in the 80s. News International reduced the cover price of The Sun to below what they were selling it to us wholesale for. They did not reduce their prices, and when we complained, they said the low price of The Sun would attract extra custom, so other products would see increased sales. We were the only newsagent in the area, so that didn't happen and we actually lost over £60,000.
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I think this might well be happening here. We should be more concerned with where our food comes from and ensuring that farming remains a profitable enterprise as the alternative could be worse. It's difficult to argue against a price cut when people are visiting food banks, makes me sound rather dismissive of poverty and precious about food, but farmers being run out of business is a long-term negative for us all. We could see produce being made en-masse by chains themselves and seeing a ruthless efficiency, and resultant lack of care and attention, being introduced at the supply end of the food chain. Look at the horse meat scandal for where that can lead too.