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

Jassy

ah pocket money is also linked....sadly that's not been paid for about a year now rocks back and fore hoping it's a phase

Isn't vegemite Australian? Have you enough points to buy that jassy

Sleep a hoarder aye! I seem to remember my DM hoarding sugar during the late 70s but then like others here she does the tea leaves and can predict the future before anyone else. Bloody Welsh.

Will there come a point where brexiters or government decide it's time to rethink brexitting or are they determined to see it through to the end whatever the consequences? I wonder where their line in the sand is.

Its probally a phase, once he needs cash he will probably change his mind!

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.

Mmm, while I appreciate your apology, the problem with the analogy here is that it went a bit further than that later on. Which is why it not only doesn't work but is inevitably going to be seen as a touch problematic. Even if we leave aside the obvious failure to analyse the power dynamics here, the centuries old history of racism and anti-Semitism that was being tapped into and the fact that you're talking about a tiny minority of the population being victimised for something they couldn't actually have done anything to affect. Personally I'd just leave it if I were you.

It's illegal for children to work in places like a factory or industrial site.

Isn't vegemite Australian? Have you enough points to buy that jassy

I'm still trying to dig my way out of the negative balance for Not Being Born Round These Parts.

People on this thread:
Trying to bully those with a different political opinion to themselves
Suggesting it's acceptable to charge people more based on their political views
Making people wear badges based on their political views

You think I should just leave it there and allow people to believe their behaviour is acceptable?
I apologised for your misinterpretation and offence taken at my comment. Not that I have highlighted the shocking behaviour of posters.

Quite right ex pat, they should picking strawberries!

"As for increasing the cost for leave voters - please see my comment above regarding the Nazi behaviour you all at risk of prejudice against someone on their political views" See, we are only Mnetters what we say on these boards doesn't really matter in the grander scheme (apart from red's posts, which are informative and a brilliant running Brexit palaver commentary) whereas clark, our nation's tabloid media actively seeks to silence those of use who are critical and hold on to our thinking hats. I asked you upthread, what do you think about the Mail, Express, Sun. vilifying remainers' voices or in fact persecuting us a unpatriotic? pray tell.

But they are foreigners so that's ok. they are grateful to pick our fruit for crap an hour.

Free movement is brilliant for big business. Millions of workers under the raydar to exploit while MEPs shuttle weekly from city to city in expenses paid top hotels and food/wine all paid for.

Yeah, its going to be ace when all those big businesses leave this country. Can't wait!!

Scot I did answer your comment on tabloids (pg 8 post 10)
^As for democratic discussions, I agree they should take place. What should not take place is finger pointing and "it's his fault"
Nothing is achieved by blaming someone.^

You may say you are just a mumsnetter and your view doesn't count but it really does. What people say, what people suggest and underparmummy comments about what she is saying to her sales guys is real life and it does affect people.

Maybe we need to take our head out of our a*s and stop being so precious.

I worked in the fields as a kid. So did my extended family. It was our family holiday. I know families who did it in the 1990s.
So when I read that All university students cant subsidise their student debt because they are all doing internships I have to call b.s.

From the impression I get there is a sense that anyone who does this work and is British gets treated like a figure of fun. The bit about paying in Tesco vouchers or patriotic points is patronising to the extreme.

I see. DM Sun Express are finger pointing and publicly calling to persecute, incarcerate Remainesr who don't shut up? Are you saying that that is not ok?

No one knows birdy think it's 50/50 really.

Voting remain was voting for a status quo of sleaze, corruption, waste and loss of sovereignty and vote leave was a vote for risk, potential economic disaster and a lurch to the right.

Labour are hopeless and ridiculous, the Lib Dems are irrelevant, and the Tories are in charge.

It's all up for debate really.

Scot I dont care how you voted your freedom of speech remains and you should not be persecuted for speaking up in the right way.
By the right way - I mean without inciting hatred.
By the DM, Sun and Express calling for people to be persecuted they themselves are at fault.

You think I should just leave it there and allow people to believe their behaviour is acceptable?

I think I'd leave it there because yours isn't, actually. It's all very well apologising, but you keep doing it.

I have just cleared 2 local supermarkets out of Marmite. Putting them up on ebay for £19.99 each + P&P, next day delivery is available. Bring on Brexit. Any one wanting to buy, them my username is marmitemillionaire

Of course everyone else selling the product has put their price up too. I was not being totally serious but it does piss me off to pay more for stuff because of Brexit, of course it does.

I dont care about calling out leavers on their bullshit. I don't want this, didnt vote for this am fed up to the back teeth of this crap. 48% is not a small percentage and I for one will never shut up about the shitness that is Brexit.
If that makes me a Nazi then, well, fine.

HyacinthFuckit
I apologised once for your misinterpretation of my comment. Because you seemed offended and my intention is not to offend. That is it, I am not apologising for my behaviour, and I most certainly am not apologising more than once.
So consider my initial apology for your offence withdrawn as you clearly do not care who you offend.

And I see no problem in pointing out to people that a cross in a box is a big deal and we are seeing huge consequences from crosses in boxes in June now. We will see more.

Call me anything you like you won't change my mind.

Red well my recollection is it came out of the blue to Gordon Brown that clunking fist! To the USA and to the European Union.

He was a lying muppet trying to cover his own arse. People saw it. There were people who talked about it in the press for at least 18 months before it happened. They were dismissed.

I always objected to that comment. I still do.

Underpar - you don't have to shut up, you can dislike brexit forever - that's totally fine. The only element that isn't fine was suggesting the price for leave voters is higher - that is separating people out and treating them differently based on their political stance.