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| Thread ID: 119861 | 2011-08-13 20:53:00 | Supermarkets are putting 800 per cent mark-ups on some fresh fruit and vegetables | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 1222979 | 2011-08-13 20:53:00 | www.stuff.co.nz I'd believe it. The difference between the Pak N Save here and the local vege stallls is huge. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1222980 | 2011-08-13 21:35:00 | Screw the Labour idea of removing GST from fresh fruit & veggies, which would only complicate the GST system unnecessarily, just support your local veggie store over the supermarket and everybody will win... Personally I buy from the supermarket for the convenience, and the fact I can get some pre-frozen veggies which suits me more than fresh fruit & veggies because my wife and I have crazy eating habits :p | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1222981 | 2011-08-13 21:42:00 | We only buy from the local veggie shops when we really need to normally we just eat from the garden and when we have too much of our own we freeze them. Having said that the freezer is now just about empty of our own veg and I will have to buy some this week | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1222982 | 2011-08-13 22:09:00 | Tell me, which 'successful' business is not having huge mark ups? Labour and National are the same. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1222983 | 2011-08-13 22:35:00 | Not gonna bother explaining it again. One thing I will note is the survey was done nationwide, which is fail already. Prices in the north are always going to be cheaper than down south. And again, you can't compare supermarkets to fruit n veg shops. Also: "In our survey, 78% of growers were being forced to sell produce for less than it cost them to produce it" is absolute rubbish. They decide the price they sell it at... Anyone who believes that article shouldn't even be shopping in the first place. |
--Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 1222984 | 2011-08-13 22:38:00 | Tell me, which 'successful' business is not having huge mark ups? Labour and National are the same. There is markup and price gouging :pf1mobile: |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1222985 | 2011-08-13 22:53:00 | Also: "In our survey, 78% of growers were being forced to sell produce for less than it cost them to produce it" is absolute rubbish. They decide the price they sell it at... Are you sure about that because a grower would sooner get something for it rather than have it rot on the ground. Why can't you compare super markets to fruit & vege stalls. If anything fruit & vege stalls would need to charge more because they have less to make a profit on. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1222986 | 2011-08-13 22:56:00 | Also: "In our survey, 78% of growers were being forced to sell produce for less than it cost them to produce it" is absolute rubbish. They decide the price they sell it at... That sounds all well and good, but in the real world, a lot of growers are under immense pressure from the two big supermarket chains. The big players (Foodstuffs + Progressive Enterprises) make up such a huge proportion of their sales that they sometimes have little sway in the matter - if you don't sell to them, then who else are you going to sell 20 tonnes of broccoli to (for example)? For some of the more perishable items (e.g. berries) which have quite a short shelf life, I can understand a large markup to make up for spoilage. However for something like kumara or pumpkin which can happily sit on the shelf for a reasonable period of time, there's no justification. If consumers vote with their wallet, the supermarkets will get the message. Dropping GST off fruit and veges will have virtually no impact, given the variation in prices today is well over 15% between shops in the same town. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 1222987 | 2011-08-13 22:58:00 | Are you sure about that because a grower would sooner get something for it rather than have it rot on the ground. Growers for the most part decide the price. If it's too expensive they might knock it back a bit if no one's buying from them, but generally if the markets are selling at a high price then you're going to be paying a high price at the supermarket. If it's stupidly high then obviously the supermarkets aren't going to put their usual mark up (~100%) on it because no one will buy it, so they usually have to sell it close to what they pay for it. Somebody: They buy pumpkins in bins of 100 (they sometimes come in crates but not often) and will often have 5 - 20 bins of it sitting out the back depending on the season/cost. Sometimes we have thrown out entire bins, and it's not rare to throw out well over half. Customers seem to think only short life stock gets thrown out. EVERYTHING can be thrown out and happens quite often too. |
--Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 1222988 | 2011-08-13 23:25:00 | Wolf I still want to hear why you think you can't compare super markets to fruit and vege stalls. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
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