The Price of Cucumbers?

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Yes - correct. Should we be bothered?

Big full page splash Tesco advert in my paper today

Cucumbers down and staying down

Tesco being the rapacious profit generating company that they are (spot me sitting on the fence there) should we be concerned that the price of a Whole Cucumber is now 49p - reduced from 65p.

So who is taking the hit - Tesco, middle men or producer?

And 'down and staying down' so that's a promise is it - forever? Not sure that a Tesco shareholder will be willing to carry the cost of increasing producers costs.

Whilst I absolutely recognise that to those on a very low income, saving 16p on all the cucumbers they buy will make a difference - why do the supermarkets think that we want food to be cheaper and ever cheaper as if that is the most important thing to us. Cheap cheap cheap - but someone will suffer - and if it is as in this case - Tesco - then sure as heck they won't suffer too much for too long.

And also for cucumbers read carrots - £1 to 80p per kilo - down and staying down.

 

[MegaSteve]

Still plenty of profit to had for all...

Meeting the threat from the 'economy' chains?

Its the price of spring onions that amazes me though...

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Surely the growers are taking the hit and the cost per kilo the big chains are buying from are already ridiculously low and won't budge. Staying down... even when food prices go up because of the flooding. I think not

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Surely the growers are taking the hit and the cost per kilo the big chains are buying from are already ridiculously low and won't budge. Staying down... even when food prices go up because of the flooding. I think not

I don't hold my breath waiting for the sub-line to the adverts 'the price paid to producers or growers was not affected by this price reduction and future increases in their costs will be accommodated into our low low price - guaranteed'

 

[Rooter]

bargain, i am gonna stock up on them while they are low!

I am also going to buy shares in the pumpkin business, been watching the market trends, they go up the whole month of october, i think they will peak right around January...

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

And also bananas - don't buy them from Tesco. Tesco doesn't subscribe to Fair Trade on bananas. There is a banana price war on at the moment and it's the growers who get clobbered unless their bananas are bought under a Fair Trade agreement.

 

[Rooter]

To be honest, i shop in tesco because i live 1 minute away from a massive tesco. my life has too much other stuff going on to worry whether my bananas are fair trade or not. Call me selfish, but i really dont give a monkeys. They are yellow, got a bend and the kids eat mountains of them. £1 a bag? thanks very much.

 

[pendodave]

Was going to mention the banana price situation as well. Not good.

It doesn't matter what spin the big supermarkets put on it, if something's cheap it's either the producers who are suffering (often having previously agreed a price and then being gazundered ) or the customers are paying because prices of other items shift up subtly to compensate.

There are no free lunches, just enormous corporations generating profits at everyone's expense, paying minimum wages and offshoring profits or manufacturing complicated avoidance schemes to make sure that only shareholders and top menagement benefit.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Brown roll in my village shop 22p
Brown roll in my local supermarket 32p

Someone is making a killing on brown rolls.

 

[Fish]

Its not the prices that concern me but the short use by dates on everything! You can't do a big shop any more for fear of stuff going out of date too quickly, especially 2 for 1 deals unless you eat the same stuff twice in a week!

Why does everything now have such a short shelf life, including Cucumbers!

 

[Rooter]

Someone is making a killing on brown rolls.

 

[Foxholer]

To be honest, i shop in tesco because i live 1 minute away from a massive tesco. my life has too much other stuff going on to worry whether my bananas are fair trade or not. Call me selfish, but i really dont give a monkeys. They are yellow, got a bend and the kids eat mountains of them. £1 a bag? thanks very much.

I'm the same - walk to Tesco. Call in at Fruit & Veg shop on the way for likely better deal. 5-10 miles plus to any other Supermarket.

Was the bold expression deliberate?

 

[SocketRocket]

Yes - correct. Should we be bothered?

Big full page splash Tesco advert in my paper today

Cucumbers down and staying down

Tesco being the rapacious profit generating company that they are (spot me sitting on the fence there) should we be concerned that the price of a Whole Cucumber is now 49p - reduced from 65p.

So who is taking the hit - Tesco, middle men or producer?

And 'down and staying down' so that's a promise is it - forever? Not sure that a Tesco shareholder will be willing to carry the cost of increasing producers costs.

Whilst I absolutely recognise that to those on a very low income, saving 16p on all the cucumbers they buy will make a difference - why do the supermarkets think that we want food to be cheaper and ever cheaper as if that is the most important thing to us. Cheap cheap cheap - but someone will suffer - and if it is as in this case - Tesco - then sure as heck they won't suffer too much for too long.

And also for cucumbers read carrots - £1 to 80p per kilo - down and staying down.

Should we feel happier if they put the price up ?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Should we feel happier if they put the price up ?

If price increase passed on to growers then maybe I wouldn't be that bothered. 10p onto the price of a cucumber make diddly-squat difference to me - a lot of 10ps to the growers would make a big difference.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

This thread worries me somewhat.
Yesterday, as I returned from my dog walk, I found, sitting on my driveway, a cucumber.
It was in an unopened Tesco wrapper with BBu date of 26th Feb. Nearest Tesco is 14 miles away.
I have no idea how it got there and started speculating. Dropped by a passing dog or crow, lobbed over a garden fence, dropped from a passing plane, thrown at my car by an irate neighbour.

A bit of a mystery.

 

[JCW]

You can bet Tesco are not making a loss , they buy it on sale or return , and they buy it on credit and cheap , they hold all the cards , sad but I dislike them , prefer sainsburys

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

You can bet Tesco are not making a loss , they buy it on sale or return , and they buy it on credit and cheap , they hold all the cards , sad but I dislike them , prefer sainsburys

Don't feel sad about not liking TEsco - they are not a particularly nice organisation to have dealings with outside of shopping. As a result of an 'incident' with my son a few years ago and dealings with them I subsequently had - we refuse to go into any Tesco unless they are the only option.

 

[SocketRocket]

This thread worries me somewhat.
Yesterday, as I returned from my dog walk, I found, sitting on my driveway, a cucumber.
It was in an unopened Tesco wrapper with BBu date of 26th Feb. Nearest Tesco is 14 miles away.
I have no idea how it got there and started speculating. Dropped by a passing dog or crow, lobbed over a garden fence, dropped from a passing plane, thrown at my car by an irate neighbour.

A bit of a mystery.

Maybe its some kind of warning. A Veggie version of a Horses head in your bed!

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Maybe its some kind of warning. A Veggie version of a Horses head in your bed!

Perhaps I have upset the village garden club.
Or maybe it is a present from a secret admirer.

 

[JCW]

Don't feel sad about not liking TEsco - they are not a particularly nice organisation to have dealings with outside of shopping. As a result of an 'incident' with my son a few years ago and dealings with them I subsequently had - we refuse to go into any Tesco unless they are the only option.

You are right , M & S are better too , cost a bit more but better all round