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Nick
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wildfoodie
Joined: 05 Apr 2005
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I've no problem with such foods being available in supermarkets, so long as the producers receive a fair price for their goods and are not coerced into heavily discounting supermarkets' purchases whilst charging the 'normal rate' to their independent retail customers. Unfortunately that is generally what happens, we always know when a supermarket has started stocking one of our lines, the sales just stop or slow to a trickle and we then get into stock management issues and usually end up dropping the product. |
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marigold
Joined: 02 Sep 2005
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Location: West Sussex
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In ye olden dayes when I was a young woman (say 30 years ago) you could buy cheap food like black pudding in Sainsbury's. And other things which are now Farmer's Market specialities. They even had wild rabbit most of the year (and horrid caged rabbit meat all year).
It's mildly irritating to think of what used to be cheap easily available local products being sold as foodie luxuries. Rabbit joints in Waitrose are laughably expensive now. |
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Nicky Colour it green
Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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Location: Devon, uk
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but black pudding is readily available everywhere - isn't it? |
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Nick
Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford
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| colour it green wrote: |
| but black pudding is readily available everywhere - isn't it? |
It is, but it's made from dried blood, which makes a difference, apparently. |
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Nicky Colour it green
Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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Location: Devon, uk
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| Nick wrote: |
| colour it green wrote: |
| but black pudding is readily available everywhere - isn't it? |
It is, but it's made from dried blood, which makes a difference, apparently. |
oh right sorry - i missed that bit. |
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joanne
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Morecambe, Lancashire
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It's Booths doing the scheme - Booths have always promoted local foods and it's a fantastic supermarket, be interesting to see what they come up with |
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troyannick
Joined: 24 Dec 2011
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another step forward, supermarkets are changing and theres obviously a demand, but as wildfoodie says the pricing has to be fair all round.
I really miss Booths,great shop, was working at Lancaster Uni and theres one nearby..not cheap, but the ale section was great.
Id love a farmers market section in our supermarket. |
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Chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35907
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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| wildfoodie wrote: |
| I've no problem with such foods being available in supermarkets, so long as the producers receive a fair price for their goods and are not coerced into heavily discounting supermarkets' purchases whilst charging the 'normal rate' to their independent retail customers. Unfortunately that is generally what happens, we always know when a supermarket has started stocking one of our lines, the sales just stop or slow to a trickle and we then get into stock management issues and usually end up dropping the product. |
Exactly. A local cheese factory got picked up by one of the big supermarkets and invested in loads of new kit to keep up with the new demand. The supermarket dropped them with a few weeks notice and they went bust.
Supermarkets do not do producers any favours at all; they suck everyone in to their gaping black-hole maw, sew up the market and then spit out what doesn't suit them. |
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Bebo
Joined: 21 May 2007
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Location: East Sussex
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Chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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Yep, sure they are some around that aren't bonded to the dark side. |
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