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

Mother We've only just begun. Brexit and Remain in unison.

bit of a storm in a tea cup really, but great advertising all the same.

I attended an economic seminar the other day for my job and the predictions are that Sterling is likely to fall further and could even need propping up at some point. The outlook for lots of sectors was pretty gloomy to be honest.

It is also likely that inflation will be back and that over the next 2/3 years jobs will be lost and unfortunately it will be those at the shop floor level who will suffer most.

This was predicted though pre brexit and it is those in the North and Wales who are likely to suffer the most. This was the view of the chief economist of a top multi national finance operation.

He may be wrong of course!

The Tories love inflation. But that was in the 80s/90s. I can't even imagine what inflation will do to those with mortgages, especially those in the south of England.

Actually, I don't think inflation will rise. What is troubling a lot of people post Brexit is negative interest on their savings. And this is a real problem.

It is elendon but at least they have savings, which many could spend if they wanted but choose not to.

A lot of older people, my mum included cry poverty but have thousands stashed away.

You don't have to pass money on to kids but it seems like it's an obsession nowadays. Never used to be as very few people had any money.

I will caveat this by saying that there are lots too who don't have anything and they will suffer most.

Gotta say this moany thread is very good value.
Of course the UK economy is going to tank.... House prices next....

From outside the UK, this brexit situation is like watching some bizarre parody of marriage break up, only England is squatting on the sofa, bitching about how hard done he is, and won't move out to his cold water bedsit cos there's no marmite or PGtips there. You couldn't make it up.

Funny how the main focus of the Brexit campaign was immigration and suddenly this seems less critical now that the financial implications of Brexit have come to pass. Things are going to cost more and this coupled with many years of post recession wage stagnation is going to be tricky for many people. I think we are now going to face up to the fact that the turkeys voted for Christmas.

I agree totally Faraway
There are some people who have clearly voted themselves out of a job. Nissan in Sunderland for a start; I would be v worried if I worked there.
People working the travel business also. Going to be massively fewer people able to go abroad now. And don't say well more people will come here because it's cheap.
They won't come because now they feel unwelcome.
I personally know of some foreign exchange trips that have been cancelled as parents are worried about their children's safety here. It's very sad.
But hey this is what the Brexit people wanted yes?

Luckily the government is letting developers build 5 bed executive homes all over the countryside reducing ourfarmland ensuring we are more dependant on imported food.

Sleepfreezone i posted after seeing specials comments i didnt have time to read thread this afternoon. i was off out and wouldnt have access to internet again until late evening.

My DM grew up in post war Italy and did work the fields in childhood. Ive seen what its done to her health.

There are reasons its not allowed . And not everyone wants to regress back to 1945.

What childhood labour taught my mother was that she wasnt worth anything more. She came to the UK in 1960 and married my British dad in 65. He offered to pay for her to go to night school She declined because she had absorbed the message that backbreaking labour was all she could do. She worked factory jobs for 50 years and finally retired at the age of 79 last Xmas.

Within a month she was an emergency admission to hospital It all caught up with her. Shes in poor health. We dont even know if shes going to be able to go to her BILs funeral.

And childhood labour was how she started out. Yes she had/has an amazing work ethic. But she also had the poverty of aspiration to go with it.

Be careful what you wish for!

I welled up a bit while typing that.

Helena your dm sounds like an amazing person I'm sorry she has not had it easy.

Agree HelenaDove. I have a great aunt who's health was ruined doing too much heavy labour on her father's farm (he didn't have enough boys) back in the 1950s. Her troubles were described as "female troubles."

It's easy to romanticise and agrarian past and forget why were all so keen to leave the countryside!

I wish your mother better. I hope she can recover and enjoy a golden old age.

Why is working in the fields not allowed. Surely if it weren't allowed we would have no fresh produce on our shelves.

Of course working in the fields.is allowed. People are objecting to using child labour

It was never seriously suggested that we make children gathber the crops.

Thankyou Scot and Elly

Oliver many people are thankful that we live in a country where child labour is not allowed.

"It was never seriously suggested that we make children gathber the crops"

This is one of the few Brexit threads that has actually made me lol. I love how sometimes on MN different topics are weaved together, in the most dadaesque -manner. From marmite wars to England going back to pre-modern times by sending their children to harvest crops to sharing genuine stories to talking about escaped apes.

I love MN.

Really, when did that occur. I went out to work when I was a child so did a lot of the other children I knew. Friend and her children used to supplement their household income and that was in the 90s

Oliver ppl mentioned children working in the fields which is backbreaking work.

Bit different from a paper round or babysitting or a Saturday job in a shop.

Oliver there are many children who dont even have to leave the house to be working.

They are called child carers.

From outside the UK, this brexit situation is like watching some bizarre parody of marriage break up, only England is squatting on the sofa, bitching about how hard done he is, and won't move out to his cold water bedsit cos there's no marmite or PGtips there. You couldn't make it up.