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

Sleep I was just pointing out that these seasonal fruit picking jobs taken on by Eastern European workers do would be unfilled if farm owners had to rely on a British workforce. I'm not saying this is a good thing. I'm saying this is the fact of the matter.

Of course the 10% is due to brexit. A year ago before the ref date was announced it was 1.42 euros to the pound ffs.

Zig - Tesco probably can't just suddenly pay 10% more for a load of stuff. Cash flow...

Wonder though what the other supermarkets are doing - maybe they've come to a sensible arrangement with their suppliers?

The fact that no-one saw the last crash coming (actually not sure that's entirely true) and we don't know what other unpredictable events may happen in the world make it all the more bloody stupid to take a course of action which is so obviously going to cause all manner of financial woes.

It's like saying you might get hit by lightning so you might as well go and play on a pylon.

I love the patriotic points system!

Yes good idea re. patriotic points Scot2Be. It could be like a Tesco Clubcard. Once you reach 1000 points you get a bucket of gruel and a cassette recording of Land of Hope and Glory.

When are people going to fucking realise that their neighbour's misery does not enhance their own fortunes?

'I don't want pensions cut.'

Really? Well that's unsustainable, too. The largest slice of the 'welfare' budget, and going up, up, up. But hey, it can be paid by people picking strawberries whilst paying through the nose for food and energy.

Hungry people will throw anyone to the wall. I sure as hell would.

LOL at getting children to bring in the crops. Forget the 1950s, we're going right back to Victorian England now

I wasn't talking about kids, I was talking about 18 year olds +

Freedom from what exactly, Elements?

Haven't the foggiest, Chardonnay, from where I'm standing Brexit looks like a wall-to-wall disaster but I'm sure somebody will be able to muster up some positive effects.

How is it possible that the leave voters earlier in the thread have all been told "they've aligned themselves with racists" yet you remain voters are suggesting the very behaviour towards us that the Nazis imposed on Jews, Gyspies, coloured, gays.
Underparmuumy I'm guessing you arent the only person selling your product. You have competitors? So either the competitors are also putting their prices up in which case any sensible customer who has done a price comparison will see that, or you are simply putting prices up and they will go elsewhere anyway. As for increasing the cost for leave voters - please see my comment above regarding the Nazi behaviour you all at risk of prejudice against someone on their political views

Errol. Agree with you but we are where we are and pehaps it would be better for Britain to stop looking back and get the best deal we can with the world.

inderparmummy

What a daft post

It's only going to go South from now on and by the way ClarkL when you say Coloureds, who exactly do you mean?
Me want to know

No one apparently saw the last recession coming so makes me chuckle to see economists and idiots like old Clegg with the doom and gloom every bloody day of the week.

Raises hand. I did. So did DH and several of our friends. We bought our house in 2007 just before the crash and factored this into our thinking about why we choice the house we did, what mortgage we chose and how much of a deposit we put down.

To say no one saw it coming is total rot. There were lots of economists and ordinary people like us who saw it coming a mile off.

The reality is the same as Brexit; people didn't want to acknowledge it was likely or what was about to happen as they simply didn't want to believe it.

As for Clegg: He predicted a few things re: government and political vacuums on the Wednesday before the referendum that have happened to the letter. Funny eh?

I'm astonished that people were willing to fuck their entire country over because of people on benefits.

Wallis in the context of my post, in Nazi Germany pretty much anyone who was not of the Aryan race.

Don't forget the. Foreigners expat...

Excellent series of short videos about how the market works, price elasticity, price equilibrium etc. By Marginal Revolution University. Obviously doesn't provide in-depth understanding but a great starting point for seeing why Brexit has fucked the country.

Oh, yes, I forgot about them, Gow. Was so busy harking back to the good ol' days of rationing, where we all bonded together, semi-starving.

What Andrew said. Never a good idea to devalue your currency when you're a place that cannot feed ourselves. And we haven't been able to do that, not well, for centuries.

Can someone remind me who Clegg is? Did he used to be important?

Has anyone tried the Tesco Yeast Extract? If so how does it compare to Marmite. I am thinking own brand products (eg Lynx set equivalents) will sell better this year without the big brand names to compete with them.

Red well my recollection is it came out of the blue to Gordon Brown that clunking fist! To the USA and to the European Union.

Good for you and your mates though what a shame you didn't pipe up and warn the world in general.

At my age have seen around 4 recessions since adulthood so 1980 onwards with kids. They come periodically usually when things are going well so not worried at the moment.

This thread is brilliant. MN at it's best. Lets move it to Classics.

If people could take short term jobs without having their benefits claim stopped, they would.
Their claim could be suspended for the time they work. Thats how the system worked years ago, but the Tories stopped it. And thats when we stopped picking in the fields and gutting fish for minimum wage.
It wasnt because we didnt want to work.

I think everyone knows at least 1 family who doesn't want to work, and if they are being honest they know the chances are the children will grow up to live the same way. These are generally the family flying the union jack and bitching about benefit cuts, while having a baby every four years, shall we stop pretending they don't exist....