Dispatches: The Truth About Food Prices, C4

Not quite sure what you're getting at.

I was basically saying that supermarkets are treating the people who keep them in existence as idiots by:

A. Arrogantly assuming that no-one can tell the difference in their food.

And compounding this by

B: Telling customers they are improving food when they are actually making it cheaper and therefore worse.

I said that of all the people I have met that I knew one person who wasn't fussy about what they ate.

Does that support this statement?
Brigadier said:
Which renders your opening post redundant.
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Brigadier said:
As these knowledgeable / "fussy" are free to shop elsewhere...........
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That is a moot point. Let's discuss it a bit further.

Supermarkets dominate the grocery business. I am quite wedded to my regular supermarket, for various reasons which I don't want to go into. It would probably be difficult for me to shop elsewhere. And for lots of people, there is only actually one physical supermarket that they have convenient access to.
 
There's probably a phrase for it in business, however you'll never convince me that at least some businesses increase prices, decrease sizes etc simply to exploit the current economic situation. i.e. they maybe don't need to do it, however they jump on the bandwagon and say 'due to the current business environment coupled with an increase in our costs ...' blah blah blah.

For some businesses, maybe even most, it'll be a requirement to survive. For others, not so much.
 
securespark said:
Supermarkets must think their customers are stupid
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Its more a case that people are busy and when we go food shopping we are probably vulnerable to psychological tricks played on…because we are probably in a bit of a rush and we are thinking about food not analysing pricing.

What annoys me is that to get the deals, you have to buy more and store it. lots of us shop in the same supermarket every week, so they aren’t getting us buy more, only that the cash is in their hands and we have the stock.

My wife always buys persil washing liquid when it’s on offer, so we end up getting 4 or 5 bottles that lasts months.


Im lucky as my wife like supermarket shopping, so she is happy to go to Waitrose every week. I can’t bear supermarket shopping, when I do go, I have a complete list and I race round as fast as possible.
 
JonathanM said:
That is a moot point. Let's discuss it a bit further.

Supermarkets dominate the grocery business. I am quite wedded to my regular supermarket, for various reasons which I don't want to go into. It would probably be difficult for me to shop elsewhere. And for lots of people, there is only actually one physical supermarket that they have convenient access to.
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Which is different to the OP (being hoodwinked / mislead).
 
Brigadier said:
So what does what a supermarket says or does matter then?


As these knowledgeable / "fussy" are free to shop elsewhere...........
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If they can afford the time and the money to.

Some are stuck with value ranges and can't afford the time to go elsewhere or the budget to upgrade to a better quality product.

And, ultimately, it matters what the supermarkets do because the nutritional value of food, particularly for those who cannot afford better quality products, is decreasing.

This has been going on a while. Bread is a good example.

In Victorian times, unscrupulous bakers would use chalk, plaster of Paris and alum to enable a cheaper loaf.

These practices were obviously outlawed. Then in the 60s, a cheaper method of making bread was developed, using the "Chorleywood Process".

Dangerous additives may have been removed from the bread made by the Victorians, but certain other additives and fats were added to assist in making the loaf quicker to produce.

Some believe the short fermentation makes the loaf harder for people to digest, this leading to a rise in gluten allergy and intolerance.
 
JonathanM said:
Supermarkets dominate the grocery business. I am quite wedded to my regular supermarket, for various reasons which I don't want to go into. It would probably be difficult for me to shop elsewhere. And for lots of people, there is only actually one physical supermarket that they have convenient access to.
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Home Bargains, Lidl, and Tesco - in a row, just a short walk away, so we take full advantage of that, picking the best, and the specials.
 
securespark said:
If they can afford the time and the money to.

Some are stuck with value ranges and can't afford the time to go elsewhere or the budget to upgrade to a better quality product.

And, ultimately, it matters what the supermarkets do because the nutritional value of food, particularly for those who cannot afford better quality products, is decreasing.

This has been going on a while. Bread is a good example.

In Victorian times, unscrupulous bakers would use chalk, plaster of Paris and alum to enable a cheaper loaf.

These practices were obviously outlawed. Then in the 60s, a cheaper method of making bread was developed, using the "Chorleywood Process".

Dangerous additives may have been removed from the bread made by the Victorians, but certain other additives and fats were added to assist in making the loaf quicker to produce.

Some believe the short fermentation makes the loaf harder for people to digest, this leading to a rise in gluten allergy and intolerance.
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Which may be all true, but is nothing to do with your OP.

You're just having a rant, and scattergunning.
 
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