agents (yet again)

[BrowneIssue]

Bet they don't, really. You're just making that figure up, aren't you?

The price of fruit & veg in supermarkets never ceases to amaze me. The margins really are utterly incredible. (Also dairy products but I know less about that market.)

[tim123]

The price of fruit & veg in supermarkets never ceases to amaze me. The margins really are utterly incredible. (Also dairy products but I know less about that market.)

But as (I tried to) point out above, the difference is not the margin, it is the cost of doing the other things that have to be done, to get the product on the shelf. For a low value item (especially an easily damaged one) these costs are a considerable percentage of the total selling price.

Comparing the difference between: what the farmer gets and what the shop sells for, is like comparing the price of a new built house with the cost of 10,000 bricks and ignoring all the other costs of building that house. It is a stupid comparison.

What really annoys me is when farmers say that they should get 2p more and someone says that this will put the shop price up by 20p. Why the **** should it? Paying the farmer 2p more should put the shop price up by, um, 2p, none of the other elements of the price will go up just because one of them does.

tim