Comments on: Supermarkets and the Prevention, Distortion and Restriction of Competition http://www.tracingpaper.org.uk/2007/10/31/supermarkets-competition/ A piecemeal investigation into the origins of our food Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:30:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Lee Bladon http://www.tracingpaper.org.uk/2007/10/31/supermarkets-competition/#comment-4216 Lee Bladon Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:37:23 +0000 http://www.tracingpaper.org.uk/2007/10/31/supermarkets-competition/#comment-4216 This is a great blog, but you really should think about changing the green text - it is almost impossible to read against the grey background. This is a great blog, but you really should think about changing the green text - it is almost impossible to read against the grey background.

]]> By: Scott at Realepicurean http://www.tracingpaper.org.uk/2007/10/31/supermarkets-competition/#comment-4134 Scott at Realepicurean Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:43:11 +0000 http://www.tracingpaper.org.uk/2007/10/31/supermarkets-competition/#comment-4134 Nick, Where's your blog gone? Such a great start and now you seem to have forgotten us! Nick,
Where’s your blog gone? Such a great start and now you seem to have forgotten us!

]]> By: Amanda http://www.tracingpaper.org.uk/2007/10/31/supermarkets-competition/#comment-2999 Amanda Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:01:38 +0000 http://www.tracingpaper.org.uk/2007/10/31/supermarkets-competition/#comment-2999 Like Richard I need to read the report in full before commenting as I'm rather adept at sounding like a twit at the best of times. Something which has been bugging me recently is that people would argue that you went to the supermarket to stock up on food once a week, and the food would last until your next shop and that food from local/smaller shops wouldn't last as long. However I find in the supermarket that if you don't pick everything up and check the date, more often than not it will run out within a day or atleast a few days. I think they've done this on purpose. Ensuring you have to go back more often, and everyone knows that you can't just pop into the supermarket and come out with a pint of milk. At least I can't. I wonder if this was all part of a plan. Close down smaller shops then make sure everybody has to come in a few times a week. I'm possibly paranoid? We are lucky in that we have a village butcher and half decent general shop which has bread delivered from a bakery in another nearby village, we also get a veg box. If I am supermarket shopping it tends to be Waitrose as our other option is Sainsbury's - a small, ancient one with tiny aisles which are a complete pain to navigate! Not to be a hypocrite I also admit to getting Ocado deliveries every so often, though the service can be hit and miss. Like Richard I need to read the report in full before commenting as I’m rather adept at sounding like a twit at the best of times.
Something which has been bugging me recently is that people would argue that you went to the supermarket to stock up on food once a week, and the food would last until your next shop and that food from local/smaller shops wouldn’t last as long. However I find in the supermarket that if you don’t pick everything up and check the date, more often than not it will run out within a day or atleast a few days. I think they’ve done this on purpose. Ensuring you have to go back more often, and everyone knows that you can’t just pop into the supermarket and come out with a pint of milk. At least I can’t. I wonder if this was all part of a plan. Close down smaller shops then make sure everybody has to come in a few times a week. I’m possibly paranoid?
We are lucky in that we have a village butcher and half decent general shop which has bread delivered from a bakery in another nearby village, we also get a veg box. If I am supermarket shopping it tends to be Waitrose as our other option is Sainsbury’s - a small, ancient one with tiny aisles which are a complete pain to navigate! Not to be a hypocrite I also admit to getting Ocado deliveries every so often, though the service can be hit and miss.

]]> By: Scott at Realepicurean http://www.tracingpaper.org.uk/2007/10/31/supermarkets-competition/#comment-2978 Scott at Realepicurean Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:44:43 +0000 http://www.tracingpaper.org.uk/2007/10/31/supermarkets-competition/#comment-2978 It's a difficult one. I wholeheartedly support small local businesses, BUT, sometimes these can simply provide old food at higher prices. It's entirely not their fault, but comes about through a lack of finance (and support from the local community). It’s a difficult one. I wholeheartedly support small local businesses, BUT, sometimes these can simply provide old food at higher prices. It’s entirely not their fault, but comes about through a lack of finance (and support from the local community).

]]> By: Richard http://www.tracingpaper.org.uk/2007/10/31/supermarkets-competition/#comment-1836 Richard Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:04:35 +0000 http://www.tracingpaper.org.uk/2007/10/31/supermarkets-competition/#comment-1836 It's all rather depressing. I need to read the report in full before I can pass real comment. However, I was outraged to see an ad on TV last night for Morrisons where Diamuird Gavin goes on about fresh bread. The gist of it is that you can't get freshly-baked bread on the highstreet anymore, and isn't Morrison's great for providing it... when of course the whole reason you can't get freshly baked bread on the high street is that the supermarkets have muscled in and taken all the food business out of the high street! As much as possible, I shop locally (I'm lucky to have a local butchers, fishmonger and green grocer that I can walk to) for a few reasons - for one, I want to support my local retailers, secondly I want to support my local producers (all my butcher's meat is local), thirdly I hate supermarkets and finally, the quality of food I get locally is superior (at no extra cost) to that in Sainsburys. I just wish everyone else felt the same. It’s all rather depressing. I need to read the report in full before I can pass real comment. However, I was outraged to see an ad on TV last night for Morrisons where Diamuird Gavin goes on about fresh bread. The gist of it is that you can’t get freshly-baked bread on the highstreet anymore, and isn’t Morrison’s great for providing it… when of course the whole reason you can’t get freshly baked bread on the high street is that the supermarkets have muscled in and taken all the food business out of the high street!

As much as possible, I shop locally (I’m lucky to have a local butchers, fishmonger and green grocer that I can walk to) for a few reasons - for one, I want to support my local retailers, secondly I want to support my local producers (all my butcher’s meat is local), thirdly I hate supermarkets and finally, the quality of food I get locally is superior (at no extra cost) to that in Sainsburys. I just wish everyone else felt the same.

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