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giraffe



Joined: 07 Oct 2005
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 05 5:52 pm    Post subject: evil blackberries Reply with quote
    

A certain well known supermarket reccommended by Jamie Oliver, and whose name begins with an "S" is selling punnets of blackberries I notice. Country of origin? Mexico! Price for a small punnet? £2.99!
Evil, I tell you, evil!

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 05 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm not as anti supermarkets as some but this just seems plain daft. I can only assume that various 'seasonal' recipes have proved popular or something like that. Madness.

2steps



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 05 6:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

why not grow them here and save on all the import costs? crazy

nettie



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 05 10:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    


hermil



Joined: 04 Sep 2005
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Location: Manchester
PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 05 10:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I really jib at the prices supermarkets charge for soft fruit, raspberries, blackberries and the like. Now I've got an allotment and our raspberries grow so plentifully it almost seems absurd - we made 10lbs jam about two weeks ago just from the autumn fruiters. There is a communal blackberry bush on one corner of the site which seems to have enough on it for everyone. I think the supermarkets are trying to foster an illusion of exoticism and of course as soon as a celeb chef pops up and plugs anything the price rockets even more. I still remember the appalling price charged for tins of broad beans when Delia Smith added them to a recipe - I grow my own now but at the time I lived in a flat with no balcony and couldn't.
I'm expecting the price of carrots to escalate now that Jamie's been shown prancing round the kitchen with a few.

cab



Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 05 10:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Buying a ubiquitous wild fruit is crazy. Importing it from Mexico is even more crazy.

Personally, I've boycotted that supermarket chain for months now, and have no intention of going back. I can cope with some of the supermarket naffness, but I've got no time for their hypocrisy.

Jonnyboy



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 05 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

2steps wrote:
why not grow them here and save on all the import costs? crazy


Fuel prices over there are a fraction of ours, so is labour.

It;s cost effective for them to do this against locally grown stuff, especially as their distribution system works against small, local suppliers - they are so geared up for huge economies of scale that they can't deal with small quantities.

Plus of course, there is a marked for this product, which is the real crime imho.

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex
PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 05 10:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jonnyboy wrote:
Plus of course, there is a marked for this product, which is the real crime imho.


Yup, the buck stops with US.

Lozzie



Joined: 25 May 2005
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 05 12:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I have just visited the Sainsbury's website and submitted a query about this to them.

Can only recommend that you do the same.

Here is the link -

https://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=326

ele



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
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Location: Derby
PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 05 12:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Done

I'll post up any e-mail reply I get

giraffe



Joined: 07 Oct 2005
Posts: 272
Location: Nottingham
PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 05 12:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

just emailled them. Glad it's not just me who is appalled by this!

jema
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 05 1:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I do despair of the punters at times, last year when Morrisons was I think still Safeways, they were selling blackberries at the height of season in a store where the car park is surround with brambles

Did not see the same this year, so maybe there is a little hope?

ele



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
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Location: Derby
PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 05 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

jema wrote:
I do despair of the punters at times, last year when Morrisons was I think still Safeways, they were selling blackberries at the height of season in a store where the car park is surround with brambles

Did not see the same this year, so maybe there is a little hope?


I used to be that person

wishus



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
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Location: Northampton, East Midlands
PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 05 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hands up - I went into Sainsbury's yesterday, but only because my housemate had neglected to tell me it was her birthday, and I wanted to get her a gift. Not having had time to prepare, I needed to buy something. The only place open by the time I got to town on the bus was Sainsbury's...
... but I walked past the fruit and veg section, and thought, mmm, apples.
They had 2 crates marked with the Union Jack, and one of them had a big, pointy sign that said "Produced in the UK and this season's", so I picked some of those.
Proof that marketing works - they tapped into my desires to choose seasonal British fruit - but I'm just propping up their empire - and just because it was British, doesn't mean it wasn't driven miles out of the way to get to that store.
I feel duped.

Penelope Anderson



Joined: 21 Sep 2005
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Location: london
PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 05 4:09 pm    Post subject: Switch of name Reply with quote
    

Oh so that's who Morrisons were, thanks for telling me. Never been near either, but it's useful to know. The price of brambles is dreadful[ the trouble is if you go to the country to pick them (I live in London) a lot of people have the same idea and the bramble patches are bare.!

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