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

Go to Lidl x

This was inevitable (although Tesco and Unilever have now sorted out their little spat) and as ever, there will be swings and roundabouts. It's just like the budget; you get a bonus from one source that gets taken away by another. There are opportunists who want to blame everything on one event, who are not looking at the bigger picture.

I was actually talking in all cases about working veg and fruit picking. Not kids doing paper rounds or Saturday jobs in newsagents.

You know that Scotland has most of our national oil & gas supplies, do you Don'tPanicPyke? So we in England will have undermined our strategic alliance with the EU through Brexit, perhaps have utterly bonkers Trump as our "ally" on the other side of the Atlantic, and put our oil and gas on the other side of a border as well. Good thinking.

www.buzzfeed.com/jamesball/inflation-is-coming?utm_term=.qewq30xd3#.kh7JvPo6v

Higher prices are on their way.

I've noticed a definite reduction is stock in our local Sainsbury's recently but had foolishly not linked it to Brexit. For example, all Schwartz herbs & spices vanished. I'm sure it's all part of the same thing. I don't demonise leave voters - I didn't head out onto the streets to campaign for remain partly due to my own ambivalences. But I do think we're making a huge mistake. Any leave voters feel like a second referendum, now that it's clear that our prices will rise and our services be cut; that the promised £350m pw for the NHS was utter bullshit? Or are you all in hiding, except the most rhinocerous-hided true believers?

Brands will of course use the Brecit as an excuse to bump prices up and remainers will be grabbing onto this as a way to say 'we told you so'. We knew this was going to happen and some predicted it would dip and then rise. Can we not look at this as a way to develop new brands? To bring money into our own country and export further? Is it so bad that you use another brand? It hasn't been long enough to use this as a way to say Brexit is failing. Be positive about the things we could do and have faith in ourselves. There are plenty of other companies and countries out there than those in the EU. I believe things will get worse before they get better but do not jump on this and act like its the start of the end. It's 200 products that we can live without. To decide on our own laws and not have these brands for one example seems a fair trade to me. Maybe it'll make us start growing our own food and making stuff from scratch? Perhaps that will mean a healthier nation. Anything bad that happens now will be blamed on the Brexit. The reason our country has got so bad is because our people don't stand up as one, why now the decision has been made can't we all try this? It's the perfect opportunity!

Have you not read any of the posts about the, erm, issue with us all trying to eat British grown?

It's going to be awesome when we're a self-sufficient nation!

Why can't these companies just suck this up for us? Not a direct quote, but one that's been cropping up.

Um well you don't really want that, because he only way brexit works financially is for us to become a more free market nation which means all these companies become more free to profiteer.

You wanted brexit and you and sadly the rest of us have to pay literally.

'The reason our country has got so bad is because our people don't stand up as one, why now the decision has been made can't we all try this? It's the perfect opportunity!'

Um, no, thanks. I'm not interested in trying to resurrect the 1940s because plenty of people who lived in that time will tell you that it sucked. LOL at growing our own food and cooking from scratch. Yeah, let's dig for victory! Plenty of people have no access to outdoor space to grow food - no allotments or gardens - and live in tiny spaces due to high rents. Plenty of us already cook from scratch.

I'm not interested in 'standing up as one' because well, we're not.

"let's dig for victory"

"Be positive about the things we could do and have faith in ourselves."

New age + conservatives + UKIP = Brexit = I do feel like I'm in some sort of dystopian trash novel.

"Anything bad that happens now will be blamed on the Brexit."
Anything bad that happened has been blamed on the EU and foreigners.

"The reason our country has got so bad is because our people don't stand up as one, why now the decision has been made can't we all try this? It's the perfect opportunity!"

Sounds fascist to me.

Unilever were prominent remain campaigners. They love the EU so much that they channel profits through a subsidiary in Switzerland which, guess what, isn't in the EU.

Produced in the UK but blaming it on brexit is rather odd. Some of the items unilever want to charge more for have the raw products are from within uk and then manufactured in UK, I know this as I have family that work for them and live near a couple of the factories and don't see foreign trucks only UK

True, we could also in that case also charge men more tax than women as there are only 15 women's prisons and 150 men's in the U.K. So this means men must commit more crimes and we could also charge parents more tax as why should single people have to work 30+ hours a week to get any help with rent etc yet parents only 16/24 and get working tax credit top ups and housing benefit!
All in it together and a democracy only when it suits!

Even before Brexit vote the so called living wage was named as going up to £7.25 an hour, when in London 23 years ago just for temping doing post office job I was getting £7.50 an hour.
Things have been getting tighter in U.K. for a long time.
Especially in the labour market for 'unskilled' jobs recently and the ridiculous price rises in rents and house prices to go with this wage decrease.

Which rightly or wrongly so is perhaps why a lot of people up North regions in particular voted brexit.
But everyone who was 'I'm alright jack' before makes out everything was Rosey before the vote and now because of brexit a disaster.

Divide and conquer.
The result is not the publics fault anyway it's the politicians.
Just as it's stil their choice to do the right or wrong thing and trigger or not trigger article 50 in the end.

What about the families already buying own brand everything and struggling? Price rises will push more 2 income low earning families into working poverty. Slow clap for Brexit

Oh for goodness sake. It was inevitable that the remainers would use Brexit as a reason to increase prices. Those of us old enough to remember decimalisation saw the same happen then. It's a case of any excuse.

london presumably they'll have to go back to the 'good old days' of nothing but bread for every meal and some stew as a treat

Yeah, those damn remainers looking for reasons to blame Brexit. The pound was due to fall 17% in value anyway, companies should totally have planned better

Cameron is doing alright out of this (even though he caused it) he's getting paid millions in a new job to just do speeches and write about it. You can google it.

I presume they'll have to fill their stomachs with warm feelings about taking back control London. Nourishing!