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The French supermarket chain is putting price warning stickers on top goods suppliers such as Nestle,Pepsico,Unilever etc saying their products have shrunk but cost more even after raw material prices have eased.(source RTE,business).
Fair play,a certain interest for Carrefour themselves but shaming these giants who are profiteering on the back of high inflation and seem to be causing a certain amount of that themselves.
You gotta admire the French.
Fair play,a certain interest for Carrefour themselves but shaming these giants who are profiteering on the back of high inflation and seem to be causing a certain amount of that themselves.
You gotta admire the French.
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I wonder if it will work, or will they get bigger
discounts to remove stickers. |
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I would like to think it would work and people avoid the products. That is happening to an extent in UK/Ire and people swapping ,they aren't fools.
Also those big companies while they have made serious money will lose marketshare for this. Heinz in the UK i think could join that list,sauces went mental,£1.70 for a tin of their soup? feck me,now going 10 soups for £9 i seen,a sign they have a lot of tins of soup not sold? They rode the public imo unfairly for a lot of the time citing as said the expensive raw materials and deserve a big public swerve like the French are doing. |
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Well said lapsy.
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Indeed, I hope they get prices down.
Share price is paramount to these guys though. |
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26 products in total. That must be about a quarter of the Heinz range of products they stock.
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5 or 6 items and brands I'll never go back to, Heinz Beans prices are ridiculous here now, 1.60 a tin is common supermarket price. People will I hope remember being rode rough by these companies.
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Brand loyalty is incredibly strong for many, they must still be selling plenty or they'd cut prices.
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£2 for a tin of ravioli. Cheaper to buy some fresh filled pasta and have it with some sauce or pesto.
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They started Monday Shrewd Dude,i hope it gathers momentum.
To be very fair i think a 4 pack of branston beans didn't go beyond £3.20 in UK,fair play to them. |
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I used to pay £1 odd for a tin of heinz beans
in Spain in the 80s. They know, or they think they know, how far they can push us, advertising works, and I hope folk stop buying em, or enough do to make a difference to their share price. |
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Doing the fat cants a favour!
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It's obviously not just the raw materials that cost. There are so many scalps on a product before it gets to your house. And yes big brands will rely on inelasticity. That's on us.
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Most people still chuck food away.
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They do,most bought something a bit mank but cheapish and left it there til out of date imo.
There would be some uproar in the UK(and Ireland) if the likes of Tesco and Supervalu had stickers saying you are getting shafted by your new smaller product that has gone up by 50%,more fool you,it is to me quite beautiful, i could easily be a Carrefour customer. Many scalps but that isn't ringing through on comparable product Ciders. |
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I cook everything apart from oven chips & M&S croissants from scratch and it costs me about £40 a week to eat like a vegetarian king.
You only pay through the nose for big name brands and convenience. It's a choice. |
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Wife is vegetarian and tend to agree that is 'cheapish' small garden but salad leaves, spring onions are there a lot of the year(jeez some tomato glut atm). Chicken is still very cheap as is mince and maybe a gammon joint but steak,lamb not so much,anything processed with these are gone up bigitty.
Totally agree re choice, i am saying no to a lot of it,some things come on 'offer' and really should be the only time that is bought. |
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----you-have-to-laugh--- • September 14, 2023 6:51 PM BST
I used to pay £1 odd for a tin of heinz beans in Spain in the 80s. E1.29 yesterday |
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Traditional salad stuff, lettuce, tomatoes, spring onions have always been expensive in the UK and rarely have much flavour
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yep same in ireland ......**** in comparison to europe
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