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jema
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 05 4:02 pm Post subject:
I could do you a DVD? jema

tahir

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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 05 4:02 pm Post subject:
I might be able to cut a deal with her...

jema
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 05 7:40 am Post subject:
I thought it was quite good on some levels, but in others pretty sparse. Much was talked about the price pressure on suppliers, but bugger all about the effect on quality. How could they fail to link in mad cow disease jema

twoscoops

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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 05 9:42 am Post subject:
Wasn't it more about the history of the supermarket and how they have come to dominate the retail industry in this country? The thing that suprised me was the Tesco guy saying that they had 10m customers, yet I heard on Tuesday that 8% of consumer spending went to Tesco. There is an odd equation in there somewhere but I'd had too much wine by that time last night.

sean
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 05 9:45 am Post subject:
Depends how you calculate it. I think they have 8% of total consumer spending. They've got 30% of grocery spend (or some similar figure). The 8% includes clothes, white goods, Cds, insurance etc..

twoscoops

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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 05 9:48 am Post subject:
Mmm, and petrol, which not only has a high turnover but is also very profitable.

Behemoth

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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 05 11:24 am Post subject:
Many of our stand alone petrol stations have been closed and the land sold for flats (the footprint of a garage with carwash is apparently about the same as a block of two bedroom flats and parking). Many of these garages doubled as local corner shops. Meaning everyone goes to the supermarket. You will be assimilated - resistance is futile.

jema
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 05 11:31 am Post subject:

Behemoth wrote:

Many of our stand alone petrol stations have been closed and the land sold for flats (the footprint of a garage with carwash is apparently about the same as a block of two bedroom flats and parking). Many of these garages doubled as local corner shops. Meaning everyone goes to the supermarket. You will be assimilated - resistance is futile.

I can think of 4 round here that have closed and that is without trying.

jema

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 05 12:38 pm Post subject:
I just finished reading 'not on the label' which covers a lot of the supermarket ill's. Chicken, beans, prawns, white bread, coffee etc. Time for a book review I think.

twoscoops

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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 05 1:23 pm Post subject:
Beans? Please spill.

jema
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 05 1:27 pm Post subject:

Twoscoops wrote:

Beans? Please spill.

Just when you think you know a product they can't screw over

jema

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 05 2:03 pm Post subject:
Not so much the product more the producers. The interesting thing is that normal business models no longer apply to supermarkets and economists are trying to think new things up. Basically you think of an hourglass shape, all the producers at the bottom, and the consumers at the top and all the products being channeled through a narrow gap which is the supermarkets.

twoscoops

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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 05 2:23 pm Post subject:
Still none the wiser

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 05 2:38 pm Post subject:
bloody hell, I'll write it all up later

Behemoth

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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 05 2:48 pm Post subject:
Sounds like there might be a book in it...

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