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Originally Posted by mothernature
Is it a recession though. Food may have gone up at the supermarkets but how do my local Asian shops manage to sell food a lot cheaper than they do. This week I have bought 8Lb Bramleys, full trays of Swedes, Leeks & Turnips (must be 20Lb in weight) and 3 bunches of bananas. Price £4.
Nothing wrong with any of them and the shopkeeper even checked that no spiders where hiding in between the food.
Warbutons Toastie is £1, that's 49p cheaper than all the supermarkets.
Most of the foods they stock appear to be far cheaper all round. Can't say for meat products though (vegetarian). From what I can see, they either aren't making a profit or the supermarkets must have a high profit margin.
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Supermarkets are a funny beast. On the one hand they have billions of pounds profit and have had it for years, allowing them to potentially absorb the cost of the recession somewhat. On the other hand they employee thousands and thousands of staff in big huge warehouses and shopping centres, which all have massive overhead costs and that's before we get on to transport, wastage etc etc.
It is very often the case that independent retailers can match or beat supermarket prices on many goods. I think the real reason people go to supermarkets is convenience because not everybody has time to shop around.