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

I think you are honestly all missing the point that the whole world is about to be totally fucked. It makes not a jot of difference that we pulled out of the European Union. The European Union won't exist in 5 years. Russia is telling staff to get back to the 'homeland' and is manoeuvring its nuclear weapons to threaten Poland and potentially the US. America is about to elect a lunatic for a president who will sabre rattle for war. China is on the brink of a massive recession which will cause a massive stock market crash as they are the country that lends to the world. All it's going to take is for an environmental catastrophe and that will be millions and millions of people displaced immediately.

I cannot believe you are fucking whinging about Marmite and trying to score points about Brexit. Honestly do yourselves a favour and start planting vegetables and filling the pantry with tins. It ain't even started yet!!

What you people need to do, instead of whinging, is buy British produce. Prices in supermarkets are kept artificially low, so feck them.

Prices will go up. This is what happens when the pound falls, as it is doing and will do.

If only there was a way of just charging people who voted FOR Brexit an extra 14% for everything rather than all of us!!! Hehehe.

Userrandomno, but who is going to pick the crops? Are you going to encourage your children to take mw, backbreaking jobs in agriculture?
Because we have to many people here and the foreigners are taking our jobs dontchaknow....

ClarkL You say you feel tired of "all this" but really you ought to celebrate. You won, you should be glad, everything you wanted is happening now. Lucky you. Your vote will affect us all for the next 25 years and beyond and you helped to make this happen for your country. I take it, you are for democracy and freedom of speech, therefore your colleagues have every right to challenge you about your vote (as you are free to challenge them) as long as all this bickering doesn't get in the way of work. I am rather surprised though why people discuss politics at work unless they are prepared to accept different views.

It becomes clearer and clearer to me. Leave voters voted against globalisation, they want a vintage UK. Call the Midwife like, all cosy and English. Economic prosperity and progress however relies on globalisation. If you don't want this you must accept that the UK will no longer be economically prosperous or significant in the global arena.

Not too bothered by certain foods being unavailable, there's far too much crap on supermarket shelves anyway!! Might do us all a bit of good

Since the vote out this was always going to happen - rising food prices.

Uk hasn't been self sufficient in food for a really long time - it why the Germans went after Uk food conveys in second world war and why there was a corresponding hugh push to dig for Britain.

Thus a drop in the pound - widely predicted was going to mean imported goods would cost UK customers more.

Plus as Cowgirl says cheap European labour is what currently picks our home grown food.

There was a Radio 4 program about meat farming in Scotland - it's in some areas the second biggest business after oil and gas it relies on European labour in the arbitrators. The guy they had on was saying they've found in the past if the can't get workers people get out of the business rather than every year having to deal with the hugh hassle of finding workers. They feared a massive decline in a major industry employing lots of UK workers as well as EU ones.

I do suspect there a bit more going on here though - I mean Tesco going to make more profit on it's own products than selling Unilever's and they are worried about encroaching of value supermarket chains like aldi.

Doesn't stop it higher prices in UK shops being a longer term trend.

TBH I do worry about access to Persil Non BIO rather than marmite - it's only washing powder my eczema child can tolerate with no ill effects that we currently know of.

SleepFreeZone YY

This is mn where it was all puppies and kittens before the eu, and people think it makes sense to buy strawberries in October. And if we had voted remain it would all be ok. The idea that it may be worth pain to sort the problems, and that people might have realised that, is alien. Wont somebody think of the children?

Yes, the pound is low against the dollar but still much higher against the euro than 07/08. No brexit vote then. The euro is also unstable.

And yes we should go back on to permanent summer time, but rees-mogg talked that one out, not the eu. A man who rarely goes outside by the look of him.

Springer Tesco is huge in Northern Ireland.

Sleep you really need to stop going on conspiracy web sites during your bouts of insomnia. Trust me on this.

Userrandomno, but who is going to pick the crops? Are you going to encourage your children to take mw, backbreaking jobs in agriculture

Dam right I will, I worked weekends on a mushroom farm for 3 years and it taught me valuable lessons. Are your kids to good for that kind of work? If you think they are then you're part of the problem.

Seasonal eating. What is wrong with that?

We do badly need to change farming policies and incentives, which are not all eu driven although a lot are. And if we are thinking of the children, it is quite important that they get fed.

Piglet I voted remain, but getting a bit sick of the continual jumping on and having a go at those that voted Leave
It is funny how you are over all the Brexit threads, defending people who voted Leave and minimising the impact of the Brexit vote, while constantly reminding us/insisting that you voted Remain...
I was going to say something about Piglet and porkies, but won't.

Fuck me, Tesco aren't stocking Ben and Jerry and people think we're going to starve. Give me strength.

I believe liekeaboss "It's a bit - dare I say - scary that a group of people who seem to overall pride themselves on tolerance and compassion are suggesting that people who disagreed with them in a democratic vote should be forced to identify themselves in public." that this is called a British sense of humour? Tongue in check? A way of coping with the doom and gloom bestowed upon us?

Scot Funny you should say that, it was the other person who emailed with a 6 page document detailing why any leave voter in an idiot. This person then continued to tell us all how terrible it would be and the day the result came out announced it was a disaster. Another colleague pulled him aside to 'have words' and say that I hadnt spoken about it at all, they suspect by my silence on the issue I am a leave voter and it was at this point I was called a racist and uneducated. So yes I am sick of all this.
I have voted conservative and not received such hatred, but I can assure you I fully believe those who voted labour and Tony Blair were wrong in their vote but I don't wave it in their face constantly or blame them for everything I think is wrong in the country.
We live in a world of propaganda - as individuals we have to make decisions and in a democracy the highest vote wins. It wont always be right, not everyone will win, but everyone has had a say without fear of being abused...until this vote of course.

Several points.
£4 for a jar of coffee!!! Think I pay around £2.79 for a big jar.
I would have thought there would not be an issue in moving abroad. Loads of people emigrated prior to the EU. What am I missing?

If the immigrant workers were being paid the national minimum wage why would the wage bill go up if you substituted British workers for the immigrant workers or are you saying that the immigrant worker was working for less in which case then it was grossly unfair to put a British worker out of a job because companies could get away with paying foreign workers less which is actually rascist on so many levels.

We live unsustainably. Our current lifestyle is unsustainable. For those that struggle with the concept it means that our lives are going to have to change, to go backward. It's a contraction and it's happening now. We have to start adjusting and making changes to our lifestyles. I fully suspect that the aviation industry will collapse at some point and once we can no longer run cars we shall be back to being reliant on our immediate communities.

I bloody love this thread. It cheers up a small part of me to see things begin to get harder here. I love a good I told you so.

Then I remember I have to live here too, and so do my children, and it wipes the smirk off my face.

I will probably be ok, I can afford the rises. My dm wont be, many friends wont be, anyone on benefits with small children will be fucked! Still I suppose they can all plant a veg patch and keep chickens. I'm sort but the brexiters who are sick of it need to suck it up you did this and yes I do think lots of people voted fir stupid reasons.

If only I could grow marmite in the garden...

On the topic of marmite though DH has always insisted that he has to have real marmite. I bought an own brand version and put it into the marmite jar. he had absolutely no idea and when I fessed up he said he would never have been able to tell the difference.