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Supermarkets have made themselves an increasingly large part of our consumer life, while the local butcher, grocer or fishmonger is a scarcity in many smaller communities. One of the largest, Tesco, have seen its profits rise by 10 per cent in a year to a record £3billion, which is a staggering £8.6million a day.
Farmers weekly, have published articles showing that suppliers have found themselves in the position of having prices dictated to themselves, on a take it or leave it basis. This has extended to offers a supermarket may be running, with suppliers being told that due to a forth coming promotion they are to bear the cost, by supplying the goods at a further discounted price to the supermarket, with the farmer bearing the real cost of this offer. While some supermarkets have been praised for their environmental awareness and action on carbon reduction, others have been persisted in practises which have questioned their true core environmental values. Examples include suppliers of fish and prawns shipping the produce halfway around the world and back again, to take advantage of cheaper labour markets, with huge consequences to climate change and global warming. The suppler is left between a rock and a hard place in using local labour markets in Britain, while bending to the pressure of supermarkets who effectively dictate the price to increase their own profit margins. Supermarkets will have to access their position and question the consequences of their actions and what they mean for our environment, while consumers question their true values and vote with their feet.
As consumers we have a part to play, in perhaps buying less and using wisely what we buy in order to reduce the 4million tons of food that we throw away in Britain, at an average cost to households of £420 a year. It is quite a thought to imagine 4.4 million apples and 1.3 million yoghurt's being dumped every day, when you consider that the rationing of food during the second World War, made owning an egg a luxury.
“4.4 million apples and 1.3 million yoghurt's being dumped every day”
Top four supermarket retailers Sainsbury’s
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Wm Morrison