Challenge: How do I eat a whole pineapple in two days? 🍍 😋
Pure luxury from the Zero Waste Box: a pineapple, lots of grapes and tens of mandarins. It's hard to believe that #supermarkets used to throw this away (which is now banned in France). A #ZeroWaste box in our #supermarket costs 3 EUR for 2 kg of "ugly" or overripe vegetables/fruits. The very ripe pineapple smells delicious!
Q. has Tesco been using its ownership of Booker cash & carry to slowly squeeze completion out of the grocery market(s) by making things progressively more difficult for small local shops?
This was the strategy many wanted about when Tesco bought Booker seven years ago, and it now looks pretty clear that stealthily that's exactly what Tesco have been doing.
Supermarkets are already an effective oligopoly & seems Tesco wants that to be even more the case!
"We're getting $2.40 a kilo for our zucchinis, which is 40 cents a kilo above what it costs to grow them. But the supermarkets are retailing them at nearly $7 a kilo."
The growers liken the mark-up to "price gouging" and say many #farmers are struggling to stay afloat.
When retailers added self-checkout the expectation was that it would save them money by offloading work to customers.
In practice they now have to worry about theft and or helping customers with ID checks for booze. Many now consider it a wash.
I honestly wonder if a similar thing will happen with adoption of generative AI. Will some businesses find it takes just as much or more work to review the output of AIs than to just have humans do it?
@carnage4life The supermarket checkouts used by Coop and ICA here in Sweden use a different system with charged handheld scanning devices you pick up when entering.
These allow you to pack groceries directly into your own bags in the store. When checking out only a % of customers get screened which is handled by staff so you only have to wait. These are much faster than both weighing & normal checkouts.
French supermarket giant Carrefour has decided to stop selling #PepsiCo products because of unacceptable price rises on their range(s).
It will be interesting to see how this plays out... how will customers react to a well-known brand not being available & which side will cave first?
More interestingly, might any lessons be drawn about how UK #supermarkets might use (or perhaps have been using) their oligopolistic position on pricing?
Same with #ALDI / "#AldiSüd"...
The only "subtennancy" they accept are #DHL parcel boxes to send and recieve packages because they don't distract or disturb the flow of customers...
#UK#DataProtection#Supermarkets#Privacy: "The chief executive of Sainsbury’s has defended its decision to sell data on the shopping habits of his customers to TV and consumer goods manufacturers looking to target their advertising.
Simon Roberts has said the supermarket group protects personal data “incredibly carefully” and that its strategy had made adverts more “relevant” for shoppers.
Last weekend, it emerged that Sainsbury’s and its rival Tesco are making an estimated £300m a year from selling information on individual shopping habits collected through loyalty card schemes.
If you have a supermarket loyalty card & have ever wondered how the discounts it provides are funded... here's one aspect of the answer (in addition to keeping you coming back).
It helps generate a rich resource of #data that can then be marketed to advertisers & others seeking to target #marketing.
Of course, for many of you this will be no surprise but its a useful reminder, that #supermarkets are not rewarding loyalty but are actually buying your #Privacy!
I keep seeing articles about getting rid of self service tills in supermarkets. The people that end up interviewed are invariably boomers.
What about those of us who LIKE self service tills? I like being able to shop without having to interact with strangers. There's plenty of people like me as well.
Rather than talking about banning them, how about we just make sure there's both manned and self service tills in shops?
The awful fad of self-checkout machines in supermarkets may be coming to an end. Looks like supermarkets in other countries are starting to realise that customer service matters, and I hope the same happens here in Australia.
Supermarkets should pay their workers to operate checkouts instead of trying to cheap-out and get customers to do their job for them.
For the last few years, supermarkets have been trying to reduce their expenses by cutting staff, and recently have also been blaming customers for shoplifting. No, we're just sick of you treating your staff badly, price-gouging, and treating customers like criminals.
Supermarket shopping.
Got the goods to the selfserve checkout. 🤔
Scanned the big bag of toilet paper.
On to the theft-prevention scales.
Wasn't going to be enough room for the rest of the grocercies, so moved the bag off the scales.
Oh no, "Return the item to the scales".🐒
Return, wait, try removal again.
Oh no, "Return the item to the scales".
Carefully unpack my bags of groceries onto scanner and shelf and walk out.
The English supermarket chain Iceland has a store in Oslo and I’ve never seen it in a worse state.
Half the freezers are empty, a bunch of them are unplugged and pushed to the corner. Empty shelves in a lot of places. Costs about £4 for a Freddo. It looks like it’s on the brink of shutting down.
Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.
In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.
Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..
@badlogic good job, well done. I recall that there was a website in the UK that did supermarket price comparisons, but it was shut down via copyright law: the supermarkets licence product images from a third party so when the guy used the same images as the supermarkets to.illustrate the price comparisons, he was threatened by the product image company and forced to shut down.