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Power of supermarkets
On 2013-09-01 08:47:18 +0100, Bob Hobden said:
"Sacha" wrote Not so long ago I told Ray that I'd read of a wholesale nursery going belly up. Today, he learned a bit more about it and said it was because it had a £3 million order from a supermarket chain which suddenly decided to halve that order. Then it said that if they potted the remaining order on, they might buy them. They didn't. Personally, I don't understand why anyone puts their entire future and livelihood into the hands of one customer. But neither do I understand the morals of a customer who will do that to a supplier. The more I hear of this sort of thing, the less inclined I am to use supermarkets and am minded to go back to the old days of shopping at small individual shops for every need, wherever possible. It's less convenient, it takes longer and it may well be a bit more expensive but if supermarkets can do this to their suppliers, it's a short step from that to "you can only buy what we offer you, there is nothing else" and all our high street shops are gone and so are our choices. This has been standard in most Supermarket contracts for years. Indeed if they decide to do a BOGOFF for example then they halve the price they pay to the supplier in most cases. I know it's standard practice, it's the morality of it that gets me. I entirely appreciate that the grower was very unwise but in the current financial climate, I'm not sure he or she can be blamed for grasping a potentially huge and maybe business-saving, order. Anyway, that's another one gone for good, jobs, home perhaps, career over. According to some of the reps who come in here, small nurseries, especially wholesalers, are failing weekly. -- Sacha South Devon |
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