foodstuff and progressive steals from the growers as well as the public... at the beginning of the year they wouldn't even give their workers a fair wage... they laugh at our laws that allows them to steal..... labour are the morons who for 9 years allowed them to strengthen their hold on consumer prices... it's more than dark mutterings it's different rules for the poor and different rules for the rich .... i thought the government was their to protect us from such criminals.... thanks for nothing helen and your shadow cullen.
I worked for six years with a Pak'n Save produce and can tell you that they put high mark-ups on the lowest cost produce.
It's easy for the growers to take a pot shot at the supermarket chains as they are the end point and most obvious place the public see the end price however the main villians in the whole supply chain are the markets (such as Turners & Growers or MG Marketing) the growers use to supply the supermarkets. Growers use the markets to supply their product, and when a supermarket chain works out a promotion at a reduced cost the market ensures that it is the grower who ends up getting a reduced price and that they keep their margain. Even though the supermarket sells the product cheep, the middle men like turners and growers never take a margin reduction. They are who the growers should be taking a pot shot at, the problem is that if they are scared of the supermarket chains they will be even more scared of the markets because without them they have no way to get their product to the retailer.