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Originally Posted by Carth
from that link
Supermarkets are the root cause, deals & contracts done with 'suppliers' at terms which are very close to make or break for them, meaning the wages offered by the suppliers to their workers are as low as they can get them . . recruitment problem right there.
Anyone remember a few years ago, dairy farmers saying it was cheaper for them to pour milk down the drain than sell it to supermarkets at the prices they were willing to pay?
Look around your local area, are the smaller butchers struggling? I bet they're not.
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From that same article, the approx salary is 25k now, granted that's under the average UK salary by approx £1.2k based on Q1 2021 numbers. However, there's a lot of people who would like to earn that salary but don't get anywhere near.
Smaller butchers can't supply a population of 68 odd million, well, they could but then they wouldn't be smaller butchers for very long.
Large populations in the most part require complex supply chains, furthermore, the answer can't be to pay everyone more as everyone knows where that will lead us.