Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Free Range Chicken

I had this problem with my local Somerfield after the first HFW programme. At first you had to be in there before 9.00am to get FR chicken otherwise it was all gone. Gradually "the shock" of the programme wore off and people stopped buying it so much. After a while you could go in at 6.00pm and get it reduced to half price.

After that they simply didn't stock so much.

I don't know why Tesco don't have FR chicken on the shelves, it could be because the supply is just not there and they can't actually buy enough to satisfy demand.

Or it could be that they don't have the demand for them, so don't stock so much.

One thing I do know, if the supply was there and the demand was there, Tesco's would be selling it.

I don't believe for one minute that Tesco are not stocking FR chicken just to annoy HFW, or anybody else! Tesco are so big for one reason, and one reason olnly, they sell what the customer want's to buy at a good price.

I will sell you childrens clothes made by 7 year old Indian kids in a sweat shop without batting an eyelid. They will force the price of coffee down so much that south amercan farmers starve, and not lose a wink of sleep over it. They will force the price of milk and veg down so much that half the farmers in the Uk go out of business, and not care one jot.

Putting FR chicken on the shelves would be nothing to them. Nor would stopping selling chickens at 2 for a fiver, if people didn't buy them.

The reason they don't have enough FR chickens for sale is either becasue they can't get enough, or they can't sell enough.

The reason why they have chickens at 2 for a fiver is because they can get them, and sell them.

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