Re: Britain's Worst Supermarket : Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:28 pm  

espanyolswan wrote: Who would have thought it surely the most predictable poll result ever http://news.sky.com/story/1054183/tesco ... ich-survey The Co-op is worse than Tesco.

espanyolswan wrote: Who would have thought it surely the most predictable poll result ever http://news.sky.com/story/1054183/tesco ... ich-survey The Co-op is worse than Tesco.

Re: Britain's Worst Supermarket : Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:29 pm  

Dally wrote:

The Co-op is worse than Tesco.

There are Co-op's left ?

Re: Britain's Worst Supermarket : Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:34 pm  

Dally wrote:

The Co-op is worse than Tesco.

I don't agree but see where you are coming from they come accross all ethical but took over Sommerfield then closed most of them down.

Re: Britain's Worst Supermarket : Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:46 pm  

Mintball wrote:

the drive to relentlessly cut prices.

I would say that "drive" is more smoke and mirrors than anything else.

Re: Britain's Worst Supermarket : Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:07 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

I would say that "drive" is more smoke and mirrors than anything else.

A valid point.

But certainly if you see how the various supermarket chains advertise and market themselves, it's on the basis of cutting prices lower than their rivals.

Re: Britain's Worst Supermarket : Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:11 pm  

Dally wrote:

The Co-op is worse than Tesco.

Pardon me for being so thick when faced with such a detailed and cogent argument ... but still I have to ask ... why?

Re: Britain's Worst Supermarket : Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:19 pm  

espanyolswan wrote: I don't agree but see where you are coming from they come accross all ethical but took over Sommerfield then closed most of them down. According to just about every ethical consumer site I have looked at, the Coop is streets ahead of Tesco. http://makewealthhistory.org/2009/03/10/which-is-the-most-ethical-supermarket/ http://www.theecologist.org/green_green_living/food_and_drink/902446/greener_grocers_six_great_ethical_supermarkets.html

espanyolswan wrote: I don't agree but see where you are coming from they come accross all ethical but took over Sommerfield then closed most of them down. According to just about every ethical consumer site I have looked at, the Coop is streets ahead of Tesco. http://makewealthhistory.org/2009/03/10/which-is-the-most-ethical-supermarket/ http://www.theecologist.org/green_green_living/food_and_drink/902446/greener_grocers_six_great_ethical_supermarkets.html

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Re: Britain's Worst Supermarket : Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:26 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

Pardon me for being so thick when faced with such a detailed and cogent argument ... but still I have to ask ... why?

Some time ago I saw a program, it might have been a North West Tonight based one, about how supermarkets effectively expect dairy farmers to produce milk at a loss to supply to them. The worst offender of the lot was the Co-op. Tesco's have I believe since then taken a somewhat more fair attitude to buying milk. Don't know of the Co-op has followed suit.

The program makers went round to Co op Hq and tried to confront an organisation that is supposed to be founded on the cooperative principles as to how this could be. The Co-op staff were extremely embarrassed not to say shocked at being exposed.

Re: Britain's Worst Supermarket : Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:31 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

Pardon me for being so thick when faced with such a detailed and cogent argument ... but still I have to ask ... why?

Have you been in one lately? If you have then you'll know.

Re: Britain's Worst Supermarket : Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:32 pm  

Rock God X wrote: According to just about every ethical consumer site I have looked at, the Coop is streets ahead of Tesco. http://makewealthhistory.org/2009/03/10/which-is-the-most-ethical-supermarket/ http://www.theecologist.org/green_green_living/food_and_drink/902446/greener_grocers_six_great_ethical_supermarkets.html I'm not talking ethics here I'm talking shopping.

Rock God X wrote: According to just about every ethical consumer site I have looked at, the Coop is streets ahead of Tesco. http://makewealthhistory.org/2009/03/10/which-is-the-most-ethical-supermarket/ http://www.theecologist.org/green_green_living/food_and_drink/902446/greener_grocers_six_great_ethical_supermarkets.html I'm not talking ethics here I'm talking shopping.