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

Good idea only ppl who voted for Brexit swallowing up the charges! Does that mean ppl who voted Tory should be the only ones swallowing all that tax increases etc that came along with them getting in to power?!

Rufus- that's what they want us to think ;)

Scared - but what about the Marmite.... And Ben and Jerry's that's the loss I'm feeling now.

Whoever made the comment re own brands, tesco yeast extract is also unavailable.

Can you tell we rely on marmite in this house?

Let's be very clear that the whole of Europe is pretty fucked at the moment.

Not as fucked as the UK

You know if you want to stay in Europe you can move to a different country

fuzzyduck that is crap. Why should I? This is my country and I want to live here with my family. I just don't want my rights taken away by a ridiculous scaremongering excuse for a democratic vote.

Coffee uk £4 for 200g Spain €3 for 50g

You know if you want to stay in Europe you can move to a different country

Niiiiice

I agree with many people who say unless we know all the ins and outs of Tesco and Unilevers decision we can't make judgement.
What I can judge is, do I want to pay an extra 10% myself for certain products, Well for marmite yes - for everything else I'd happily look for substitutions . If the consumers aren't happy with a price hike, they wont buy. Unilever loose.
Personally if I were Tesco (ok not Tesco, but a supermarket that isn't hated) I'd take less stock and advise customers of why there is a price increase and provide alternatives as well as the more expensive Unilever product. People will decide and either the price increase remains or Unilever suddenly loose lots of sales.
Yes prices will change, that is inevitable...but perhaps it will force supermarkets to be less picky about 'the wrong sized veg' and we can start having items in season more or god forbid, support smaller local businesses

You know if you want to stay in Europe you can move to a different country

I don't think we can, our rights to freedom of movement in the EU is about to be put in the bin.

No need to move dh is Irish, I will just carry fual passports #pissonthefirejackmytoastisdone

You know if you want to stay in Europe you can move to a different country

Was there a part of 'losing freedom of movement' you didn't understand?

Armageddon 🙈

I agree with many people who say unless we know all the ins and outs of Tesco and Unilevers decision we can't make judgement.

Oh but it's soooooooo much easier to have a pop at those that may have voted leave.

To the pp who said the solution is to buy supermarket own brands that isn't a solution at all. A very large number of supermarket own brand products are made in the same factories as the branded product with just a slight change (or sometimes no change at all). DH's BF works in this area for one of the large supermarkets.

Last night's BBC news mentioned many Unilever products are made in the UK.

Always good to see supermarket suppliers standing their ground, even though I agree across all their product range is a weak argument.

Year on year, wholesalers always put their prices up because of 'increasing costs.' Can't see much difference really.

Trying to keep it light hearted, 17 million voted for this.

Whispers-16 didn't-

"You know if you want to stay in Europe you can move to a different country"
That is a very informed contribution

Unilever is just trying to make bigger profist from Brexit. For example England has a factory that makes all of the worlds Marmite, it exports 95% of it. So due to the fall in the pound the the price of Marmite should actually be falling. Yet Unilever want to add 10% to it. Greedy bastards.

What do you think Marmite is made from, dear? fresh air? water? Clouds?
They most likely get there ingredients from the EU.

fuzzyduck1

where did you buy that coffee?

brand?

Coffee in Spain is much much cheaper than that... Last month I bought a 250g pack of Marcilla Gran Aroma in El Corte Ingles in Valencia (not the cheapest of supermarkets) for euro 2.45...

Just double checked... same size/package in Jurado is currently 1.75, Bonka is 2.18, Saimaza is 1.99...

Piglet pointing and blaming people is stupid. I voted leave and I stand by my vote, I had a colleague refer to me as uneducated and a racist because of my vote...they have known me for 4 years and in that time they have had no reason to ever consider me a racist or uneducated. I find it ironic that he is judging me by one thing whilst claiming to be oh so right himself, it actually just made him look stupid - not once did he ask or want to understand my decision to vote.

Maybe we should be looking at WHY 17 million voted to leave.

Oh and out of interest when the Farmers V Tesco and milk war was happening who was to blame? Cheap foreign imports!! This is exactly the same situation but with Brexit the villain

Oh but it's soooooooo much easier to have a pop at those that may have voted leave.

Would the pound have fallen if there had been no vote, or the result had been stay ?

Almost certainly not.

Alternatively:

Why are prices rising ?
Because the value of the pound has fallen.
Why has the value of the pound fallen ?
Because the UK voted for Brexit ?
You're just saying that - you can't know that.
Well, it started falling on June 24th ....
But that could be anything ... you don't know that ...
&c.

yes Brexit has stolen our daylight hours, I predict in a couple of weeks we will suddenly lose a whole hour in one day...madness!!

Oh yes! TM will invoke Art. 50 and we will get a whole hour back. A resounding success for Leave!

Clark sorry but by voting for Brexit you have contributed, by choice, to the downfall of this country. The fact that you are unable to see it indicates that you don't really know how global markets work. The world is no longer what it was in the last century but Brexiters want their vintage England back. Your colleagues are right i'm afraid.

It's immensely unfair to characterise all Leave voters as ignorant racists - there are some whose decision was based on sensible and carefully nuanced arguments.

However, it is fair to point out to them that they have aligned themselves with a bunch of ignorant racists (which was pointed out to them at the time) and if they don't like that, they should be careful the company they keep.

I know not all Germans who voted for Hitler believed in the Nazi philosophy. But those that voted for him because of his enlightened environmental policies might have thought twice about the rest of the deal.

I feel sorry for people who are already sick of Brexit - you have no idea how the next 25 years will go.

Unilever is using brexit as an excuse to hike costs the same way that employers used the worldwide recession to freeze wages and take the piss with employee rights a few years ago. It's very convenient for them.

anon ingredients are not British though.