Originally Posted by derekgas (Post 596039)

I said in another thread that, part of the reason this country is in a mess is down to pure greed, yet people dont shop around for cheaper groceries, that is down to lack of time and laziness, if everybody shopped in town for a couple of weeks, asda would'nt drop the prices because of the lack of business, they would close it down because of the lack of profit, businesses like asda dont just have to be profitable, they have targets and have to make a certain amount of profit, same with most of the big shops, that is why there are very few big name stores here, places like Bury are losing them too because of supermarkets and shopper apathy.