Dear Cyber Drama Queens
How is everyone today? Hope you have all had a great week and are ready to relax this weekend! Today’s little rant will be about the issue of supermarket chains. You know which one I am talking about the one everyone is saying has got the monopoly of the market. In all fairness this comment is almost accurate. Also I will attempt to endeavour the issue of distance travelled for most food readily available at your local supermarket.
Well starting on the supermarket lets call it T. Well people are always going on about how bad it is, this may be true in some manner but until the other supermarket chains start placing readily available branches in central London then they get no sympathy from me. I mean come on i am not going to travel 5-10 miles in order to get groceries that defeats the purpose of being green. Also don’t have a car. The weird thing is that the other supermarket chains that are complaining about T. Cant grasp the fact that all the 4 major supermarket labels in the UK are serving completely different markets and T. Serves the largest market in numbers across the UK that’s why they get a larger share of the market. This is mainly due to pricing. If these other chains have issues, I say lower your prices.
They are probably wondering why people wont buy from them, well I am sorry but some things are inexcusable to be so expensive. Now coming onto the topic of air miles for the food and where it comes from. There is a very simple solution, people should stop buying veg that is out of season or that cannot be grown in the UK or stop buying food that cannot be produced in the UK. Or the other very simple solution is stop whining about it. Funny how these people are not whinging about the fact that all the healthy food is taxed to death and most of the unhealthy fattening things are still cheap as they don’t get taxed to death. Then they wonder why we have such large obesity numbers in the UK. Make the healthy food cheap and the unhealthy food should get taxed considerably and i tell you people will be eating healthier in no time.
I come from somewhere where people only eat fruit and veg that is in season and is grown nationally and the imported stuff is shunned, why can’t it be the same here. This by no means not embarrassing other cultures food, which would be narrow minded and people would end up missing out.
Anyway I think I have gone on too much.
Let me know what you think!
Keep cool
DQB