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Hackbread said:
Usually because your seeing the real value of what it costs to produce food that pays farmers/workers a fair wage without exploiting people or the environment.
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From a customer's perspective though, it's hard. As I've mentioned elsewhere, the refugee charity I support runs bread stalls across London, and the bread we sell is a good 100/150% dearer than you'd find a comparable loaf for in the supermarkets. You might argue that's the real price or that supermarkets use bread as a loss leader, but whenever I browsed East Street Market for fresh produce, it was always considerably dearer than in the supermarket. This is at a time when the food bank I volunteer in is rammed every week with folks trying to get food that they can't afford to buy in the supermarkets, much less at its "real price".
 
Bruce Wayne said:
From a customer's perspective though, it's hard. As I've mentioned elsewhere, the refugee charity I support runs bread stalls across London, and the bread we sell is a good 100/150% dearer than you'd find a comparable loaf for in the supermarkets. You might argue that's the real price or that supermarkets use bread as a loss leader, but whenever I browsed East Street Market for fresh produce, it was always considerably dearer than in the supermarket. This is at a time when the food bank I volunteer in is rammed every week with folks trying to get food that they can't afford to buy in the supermarkets, much less at its "real price".
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I 100% agree it is hard to justify paying more.
A dilemma I grapple with regularly when pricing my vegetables for sale.

Sadly though in terms of alot of supermarket produce, the consumer might not bear the cost but that cost will be extracted somewhere down the line to keep it cheap for the consumer. Either through poor returns for the farmer, exploited migrant workers or increased environmental destruction etc.

People used to havea higher proportion of their Household budget being spent on food.
Nowadays with cheap food and the struggles of people to pay for Heating or housing i am not surprised people choose cheap supermarket food over expensive vegetables.
 
Xizor said:
Mel Stride in as Shadow Chancellor and Patel of all people in as Shadow Foreign Sec.

Jobs for the Leadership rivals so far.
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Patel.

Priti Patel?

The one who was sacked from the DFOD for trying to divert foreign aid money to the IDF after being caught having off the record meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu?

The Tory talent pool is deep indeed.
 
Unbelievably good news for Labour. A front bench completely devoid of sensibility, pragmatism, and political nous.

Who knew a changed Conservative Party would actually just be the same old Tories...

Starmers glasses and suits as gifts pale into insignificance as gifts.
 
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