Brexit now affecting supermarkets?

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Tesco has dropped all 200 of Unilever's brands from store shelves, over a dispute over pricing.

Unilever is blaming Brexit as the reason for wanting a 10% price increase for supply of it's products.

Whereas, MPs are saying Unilever are just using Brexit as a smokescreen to raise prices.

Unilever own some of the biggest brands in the UK - Persil, PG Tips, Dove, Hellmans etc.

And with Tesco's being the UKs biggest supermarket chain, this can't be good (other supermarkets have also said they would drop the brands as opposed to absorbing a price hike).

Do you think Brexit is really now affecting our supermarket shelves?

Sorry for the source (but would imagine it's in others too as heard it on the radio) HERE

pregnant DH couldn't tell the difference and he's a marmite fan.

I agree with Red.
The 'no k e saw it coming' is rubbish. That politicians didn't want to talk about it us a different issue.

As fur 'it has always quelled out ok when we've had an economic crisis'.
Well maybe. But it wasn't in these circumstances and nothing us saying it will as easy as that this time.

Its a price worth paying to leave the UK, I for one wont die if I have to buy a different brand of washing up powder or use own brand yeast extract rather than Marmite.

Project Fear is alive and killing.

Its a price worth paying for the UK to leave the EU. Sorry

I think everyone knows at least 1 family who doesn't want to work, and if they are being honest they know the chances are the children will grow up to live the same way. These are generally the family flying the union jack and bitching about benefit cuts, while having a baby every four years, shall we stop pretending they don't exist

Thats how the system worked years ago, but the Tories stopped it.
So we should be complaining about that, not about Immigrants or the EU.

Thats good atticusclaw2 I love my marmite and jacket potato :) so shall swap it for Yeast extract.

I work next door to a Tesco Distribution centre and was chatting to one of their employees this morning, he said all the other major supermarkets are following suit in the Unilever snub :(

I think everyone knows at least 1 family who doesn't want to work, and if they are being honest they know the chances are the children will grow up to live the same way. These are generally the family flying the union jack and bitching about benefit cuts, while having a baby every four years, shall we stop pretending they don't exist....

I think Emily Thornberry has just outed herself on MN

How is it possible that the leave voters earlier in the thread have all been told "they've aligned themselves with racists" yet you remain voters are suggesting the very behaviour towards us that the Nazis imposed on Jews, Gyspies, coloured, gays.

I do so wish you were actually right. The history of the twentieth century would be infinitely less sad if the Nazis had just charged the Jews and gypsies 14% more for food.

However, you don't get to use the murder of millions of people because of what they were to try and stop Remainers saying things you don't like. Fucking catch yourself on. Immediately. Trivialising genocide is filthy.

Cowgirl we have found something we can agree on!
Yes, most people do know 'that one family' and the cycle can't continue.

Children need to get back to having weekend jobs - school education is important, but as I keep telling me 2 kids. Your first job isn't going to define your career, but it is going to show employers you can turn up and do as your told.
If kids earned their own money from a youngish age (13 up) it puts less pressure on parents to provide everything (I mean latest fashions/must haves not food) and hopefully it means they realise sweeping floors, picking veg and cleaning are not below them get rid of the stigma attached with many minimum wage jobs.

If the tories stopped the benefits 'pause' ability for seasonal workers then it needs reintroducing. That could have been done by labour, Lim dem as part of the co government and now again by the Tories.
If we can do that, we can hopefully get people back into work without the worry for when the season ends... it also prevents people who refuse work moaning when any further cap is introduced, take away peoples excuses by providing solutions.
See theres an issue both leave and remain voters are concerned about and a solution that I think keeps both camps happy?!

Now to sort out Unilever and Tesco.... ;)

HyacinthFuckit if that is how you have interpreted my comment I will apologise. In no way is my intention to suggest the remain voters are inciting genocide.
What they are doing on this thread is wanting to separate out the leave voters with a badge and that is exactly what the Nazis did do to Jews in the beginning.

How is it possible that the leave voters earlier in the thread have all been told "they've aligned themselves with racists" yet you remain voters are suggesting the very behaviour towards us that the Nazis imposed on Jews, Gyspies, coloured, gays.

People have suggested putting leave voters in gas chambers? Can you link please.
(I doubt it)

emily. Bless her the patronising twat who has actually managed to get a front bench position as poor old Corbyn can't get anyone better to sit near him. And don't forget his old shag partner Abbott.

Still thank god for a strong opposition aye,

Scared so Gordon saw the recession coming and kept it to himself? are you all friends with Red

Google mrs marmite lover for recipe (it wont let me paste the link)

You're welcome

Clark apparently its just us, my big moment was when my babysitter told me her mum had presented her with a jsa application form with her birthday card!

Has anyone tried the Tesco Yeast Extract? If so how does it compare to Marmite. I am thinking own brand products (eg Lynx set equivalents) will sell better this year without the big brand names to compete with them.

Until they start charging Tesco more to supply the own-brand products because their input costs have gone up as well...

Jam tomorrow, jam yesterday.

Its a price worth paying to leave the UK, I for one wont die if I have to buy a different brand of washing up powder or use own brand yeast extract rather than Marmite.

I think that's an entirely defensible position, though it's one I disagree with (and you'll probably find the cost of the own brand going up too.)

It's the people saying that consumer prices increases can absolutely not be linked to Brexit or a low pound (caused by the vote) who look extraordinarily silly.

Prefer jam to marmite though. Marmite is vile.

Grand, people letting C5 determine how they vote. Economic crash and recession is all the fault of the benefits system, surely.

Someone on my FB posted a link about possibly extending the bedroom tax to 'pensioners' (it's actually anyone under the age of 62) and so shocked. 'This is horrifying'. It is? Disabled people who are unable to work have had this foisted on them years ago. It was okay to throw them under a bus, cut their benefits £30/week (never mind, they're all just faking. My grannie's cleaner's hamster's cousin has been claiming for a bad back for 60 years and coining it).

Ah Cowgirl I hope you don't get as much hatred as me on this post!
My son was offered a job in my husbands workshop this summer. Making the tea and sweeping the floor £1 an hour (hes 12) and could have pocketed £300
He refused saying sweeping the floor is below him.
Unfortunately for him, his biological Dad hasn't worked since he was born and filled his head with crap about 'working for the man' is bad. (but taking handouts is acceptable!!)
I really hope he has a wake up call long before he leaves school as the only thing he'll get from me is a roof over his head and a cooked meal

I am not giving away my location with this photo so I think it's safe to tell you I have both these things currently in my cupboard 🤑

I think Emily Thornberry has just outed herself on MN

Prefer jam to marmite though. Marmite is vile.

Agreed.

But I'm a filthy job-stealing immigrant who buys Vegemite which costs a fortune no matter what.

Clark I moved to get away from that sort of thinking, id like to think it was that particular estate but I know it isn't.
Already link pocket money to chores for ds9