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Oh no... Will someone think of the students!!!
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Tesco has fallen out with Unilever, which means there's a shortage of Pot Noddle.
Also, in different areas of the country a number of Unilever brands have sold out. They include Persil, Surf, Dove, Comfort, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Elmlea, Colman’s, Helmann’s, Marmite, Knorr, Bertolli, Flora, and Comfort. The items are not available on the Tesco website |
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over a year ago
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"I'm betting you'll still be able to buy all the 'own-brand' versions, showing what's really going on here...
(in an emergency: normal noodles and a cuppa-soup  )
Mr ddc"
Unilever have asked for a 10% price increase though. They might bite themselves on the bum if people go for own brands instead. I can cope without it all except marmite.
Sarah  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm a student and I fkin hate pot noodle ...
And marmite..
So it affects me not one jot!
Actually as a student one of the perks I get is 10% off my shopping at the co op, so I'll carry on going there |
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"I'm betting you'll still be able to buy all the 'own-brand' versions, showing what's really going on here...
(in an emergency: normal noodles and a cuppa-soup )
Mr ddc
Unilever have asked for a 10% price increase though. They might bite themselves on the bum if people go for own brands instead. I can cope without it all except marmite.
Sarah "
I know, hence Tesco temporarily removing their products from their website, despite there being no *actual* shortage of any of the said items.
It's just the commercial equivalent of calling a strike.
We have a newly-opened 500g jar of Marmite if it helps 
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"Anything that fucks over Tesco has to be good"
Surely the eventual outcome will be the opposite? The other supermarkets presumably have accepted the increase, but once Tescos negotiate a lower increase it'll increase their competitiveness and hence turnover and profitability?
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"I'm betting you'll still be able to buy all the 'own-brand' versions, showing what's really going on here...
(in an emergency: normal noodles and a cuppa-soup )
Mr ddc
Unilever have asked for a 10% price increase though. They might bite themselves on the bum if people go for own brands instead. I can cope without it all except marmite.
Sarah "
And who do you think makes the " own brand " products?
Unilever of course; in the same way that Heinz makes Tesco beans,
Weetabix makes the " own brand" version etc;
You just look at the registration number on the labels to identify the manufacturer.
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"All the students round me spend all their time clogging up the aisles in waitrose buying puy lentils and quinoa. And have far too much money. Bastards."
Good on Tesco for taking the moral high ground for once in their chequered life...
This isn't an issue for the great unwashed, means they will have more money to spend in the student uni...
Seems like a win win situation to me. |
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"I'm betting you'll still be able to buy all the 'own-brand' versions, showing what's really going on here...
(in an emergency: normal noodles and a cuppa-soup )
Mr ddc
Unilever have asked for a 10% price increase though. They might bite themselves on the bum if people go for own brands instead. I can cope without it all except marmite.
Sarah "
I can just go to the outlet shop in Burton and buy my marmite direct! 
As for the rest- it's no biggy.
I would recommend that the 10% is either swallowed by the food giant Tesco, or passed on to the consumer and let them vote with their feet. No one is irreplaceable. |
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"Or y'know go to Sainsbury's or Asda or Lidl etc etc
the irony of shopping in a German owned store will go straight over the heads of some of those who voted Brexit..
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"Note to all students :
Pot noodles are available in poundland
Along with large tubs of pringles.
That should keep em happy..... "
Oooo how much are they? |
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"I'm betting you'll still be able to buy all the 'own-brand' versions, showing what's really going on here...
(in an emergency: normal noodles and a cuppa-soup )
Mr ddc
Unilever have asked for a 10% price increase though. They might bite themselves on the bum if people go for own brands instead. I can cope without it all except marmite.
Sarah "
I use Tescos own brand. Blindfolded - I'm game |
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"Anything that fucks over Tesco has to be good
Surely the eventual outcome will be the opposite? The other supermarkets presumably have accepted the increase, but once Tescos negotiate a lower increase it'll increase their competitiveness and hence turnover and profitability?
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We don't know whether they have accepted the hit. I suspect not |
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
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"Tesco has fallen out with Unilever, which means there's a shortage of Pot Noddle.
Also, in different areas of the country a number of Unilever brands have sold out. They include Persil, Surf, Dove, Comfort, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Elmlea, Colman’s, Helmann’s, Marmite, Knorr, Bertolli, Flora, and Comfort. The items are not available on the Tesco website"
As an aside to this Asda usually have the 500g Betolli on offer for £1 round here, a 1kg tub is £3.70 and I still stare at people shaking my head as they pick up the 1kg tub!! Think we need some more mature students or maybe just school rather than college?
Pot noodle? I'd rather boil my eyeballs in vinegar!
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The economics are simple;
Unilever buys the majority of its raw materials in $;( and some in €)
The £ has dropped by 15%
Tesco buys in £.
15% wipes out their profit margin
Food and domestic consumables manufacturing is rapid turnover of raw materials; so price hikes in raw materials have a very quick effect.
They have no option.
Most other major food and domestic manufacturers are in the same position and will have to do the same.
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It's called inflation, it's exactly what the BoE and the government of both colours have been trying to get for nearly ten years now.
When you've got more debt than you can afford to pay off the only solution is to make that debt be worth less..... The knock on is you get poorer but don't cry to much it's been occurring for 300 years hence why your house is now worth more than two turnips  |
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On another note every country in the world has been expanding their money supply massively for years, when you expand it, it becomes worth less currency down prices up, inflation of the currency supply.
Now take a look at central banks balance sheets, there not double or even quadrupled there about 20 to 25 times bigger.... That will come through as inflation sooner or later..... If you think your poor now.
Just wait awhile |
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"I can just go to the outlet shop in Burton and buy my marmite direct!
Show off 
Next time you're in, see if they do the XXX stuff there please, I loved that stuff  "
Will do xx |
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