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

maisiejones why do you think the pound has droop 17% since the referendum. Butter is up 58%. Sugar up 37%. Beef up 33%. Pork up 18%. Wheat up 17%.
If not because of Brexit, how do explain this maisiejones?

has droop? dropped

The pound was due to fall 17% in value anyway

At least it's a sort of self-consistent conspiracy theory with some acknowledgement of reality: Remainers villainously caused the £ to collapse and consequently prices to rise just so they could teach Brexiters a lesson (never mind that everybody has to buy food and keep warm).

Meanwhile on the News at Ten I see that Mark Carney is warning that prices will be going up - that ghastly foreign expert Talking Britain Down...

I think we all knew that Cameron would be OK financially. Ditto with Johnson, Farage, Fox, Leasdom, May, when the shit hits the fan.

elements tbf Mark Carney was one of those remainers who probably helped fulfil the pound drop. I bloody love him at the moment though, whenever he's giving a speech he has this look that he's one stupid question away from a gigantic breakdown rant about 'you selfish fuckers'.

Hnilever afe just being greedy. Unilever is part British with some thjngs manufavtured herd, they are using it as an excuse. Good on Tesco, I personally dont but unilever products so this doesnt affect me so far

Not sure if this has been mentioned already but Theresa May has just been very firm about not giving any extra money to the NHS, for anything, because they just have to manage like other government departments had to (you know, like the Home Office where they systematically destroyed policing, and Defence which is more optional, I would say, than healthcare). If you voted Leave so the NHS could have that £350 million a week, well, you're about to be even more disappointed than you already were. Guardian

Sorry in advance, haven't RTFT, but would point out that over the last five or so years of an extremely strong pound, food prices haven't regularly been dropping by 10%...

People are applauding Unilever???

Tesco (much as I usually dislike them) are the heroes here!

Tesco didn't object to reasonable price rises, but Unilever are trying to use Brexit to make prices of products that are unaffected rise. They want to raise prices across the board and Tesco have simply said no. They know exactly which products are affected as well.

Incidentally, there may be temporary rises everywhere but ultimately once we can trade worldwide again prices will go back to pre eu rip off levels. Like for example, the cheap US steel that we were forced to stop using in favour of eu manufactured steel costing us almost five times as much.

It's obviously a lot more complicated than that, but basically that sums the situation up.

I am curious about the details - which one of Unilever or Tesco blinked first?

No I don't think it's anything to do with Brexit. It's devious Tesco's trying to cash in by appearing to be the 'good guy'. Trashy supermarket, can't stand them!! They think their customer's are morons.

Surely people aren't surprised at proposed price hikes on Everything we import into the UK? Didn't people know that this would be the result of existing the EU? The UK imports soooo much- food, clothes, household items, cars, technology etc- and if we don't pay into "the club" we don't benefit from it! Why would we? And we aren't even "out" yet! I'm not going to go on about the benefits or losses of Brexit here, or point fingers, but for people to be shocked and surprised at the Start of these price hikes then frankly I'm exasperated!!

A plague on both your houses.

Hard Brexit always makes me snigger. Too rude.

Good morning, if anyone bothered analysing the Brexit threads, they would find evidence that Pro Brexit posters use the following words heavily:
Believe
Positive
Control
Faith
borders
British

I must admit I have not seen any pro Brexit posters post any facts whatsoever. Which is rather telling. I refuse to accept in my mind (but know I have to and am working on various plans to soften the Brexit blow for my family) that people who are clueless about how globally connected our economy and lifestyles are, how we rely on our EU partners for trade and knowledge exchange and that our MEP have fucked up in Brussels, have voted us out. Pound goes down, food prices up but oh nooooo, it's not our doing, it cannot be brexit it would have happened anyway . It's like when my dc were toddlers, stubbornly insisting on being right, at times, even though they obviously weren't. Only my toddlers were more loveable when being 'stupidly' stubborn and they have grown out of it.

It is not democracy it is the rule of the uneducated mob. And: please stop winging about being called uneducated because if all you have in terms of political argument is "I believe" "Have faith" "better out than in" and "British is best" instead of understanding evidence you are indeed uneducated. Enough already.

Flugal Pip - woke up this news of NHS. Boris had buses running through our capital plastered with lies of extra money for our health service. As it is, those who voted leave are in for a shock over the next few years as there won't be a National Health Service, except as a brand. The reality is staff cuts and closures and services creamed off by the private sector. The extra money for Brexit has to come from somewhere. Think of the admin costs alone of reverting back to the old passports.
Did anyone see the pictures of our DC playing in raw sewage on Blackpool beach, now Blue Flag status as a result of us being in EU? Now thanks to the leavers we're really in the shit.
I heard a finance guy panic buying up currency a few days before the vote as our stupidity and gullibility was feared.
It should never have been on the table as an option. Like Marmite won't be

Ps it's only safe to stick your head in the sand at the moment

I stopped shopping at Tesco a while back as I didn't like them. Have saved a small fortune since shopping else where

UK industry has been systematically undermined by EU regulations to the extent that we now import brands that used to be made here. Anyone remember Rageigh and BSA?

However we can't vote out the politicians who have put many of out of work. But that's all OK as long as the city is a huge industry making millionairs out of wide boys whilst the rest of the country goes short.

It is going to be hard work adjusting to being able to control our own affairs. But like an emotionally abused wife deciding to leave, (shades of Rob and Helen), it will be worthwhile.

Mark Carney was one of the few who was ready to do something immediately on 24th June. I will always have respect for him. Cameron has lost most of the respect he once had. May is rapidly heading the same way.

So the currency has tanked, prices are about to rise and despite promises the NHS is getting fuck all.
What a shitshow

over the last five or so years of an extremely strong pound, food prices haven't regularly been dropping by 10%...

(1) Overall, the % of income spent on food has been dropping for quite some time (FWIW, not necessarily drawing a correlation with strength of the £) so we've done pretty well.
(2) The time to complain about food prices not dropping back when the £ was strong was, well, back when the £ was strong. If food prices going forward are increasing whether due to EvilCorp or a natural consequence of weakening currency, we can't go back and demand a rebate from the past - that money is long gone, paid to shareholders or to EvilOffshoreBank and spent.

I'm still in awe of the comments about Unilever being British with manufacturing in Britain so not being affected by the weakening pound. Could someone please remind me how much home grown tea we produce?

I hope we don't go so self sufficient we no longer import tea and coffee. The uk would not be a safer place without caffeine

BSA went long before Referendum.

I certainly remember BSA motorcycles. But it wasn't the EU which killed off the British motorcycle industry. The clue is in the name of the marques we now have - Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha.