by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
ASDA, the former dairy farmer co-operative with ethics, known as Associated Dairies, originally, now part of the Walmart which has none, has had a great was of giving value for money to its customers just before Christmas.
The price of batteries, for instance, essential for the toys that were going to be bought and other gadgets, rose to double the cost to before. And this, so it would appear, is only one of the many things that the prices of which – in their wisdom – they put up the prices. This is the most cynical attitude that I have so far, I must say, encountered from a supermarket chain.
The store chain, which always claims to save you, the customer, money – and if you believe that then I have got some ocean front property to sell you in Arizona and New Mexico – really knowns how to look after they bottom line, it seems. That is their bottom line, not yours.
Tesco, it can be added here, also have used the same kind of tactics just before 2009 Christmas and then, just recently, they went to put pressure on farmers, only a couple of days before the new legislation came in in Britain that makes it illegal to deal unethically with suppliers, to renegotiate the contracts and settle for lower prices.
Not very ethical, neither of those two, and maybe we, the people, need to tell them and show them what we think of such actions. Our wallets are what can speak here rather loudly.
© 2010
