can you imagine an American grocery chain standing up to their vendors?
can you imagine an American grocery chain standing up to their vendors?
French supermarket chain Carrefour has slapped price warnings on products ranging from Lindt chocolates to Lipton Ice Tea to pressure suppliers such as Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever to cut their prices.
The difference between European countries and America is becoming so stark. Anyone reading or watching global news has to see how backwards this country is and that it’s only getting worse.
Can you imagine an American grocery store chain letting its cashiers sit down?
66One reason I shop at Aldi's. Their cashiers sat down. I respect that. I shop there.
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17The Fred Meyer (Kroger) in my neighborhood has 4-5 armed and body armored security guards stationed at the entrance and exits. They ask to check your receipts at the exit and search all your bags.
Its actually illegal to force someone to stop since its not a private club like Costco, so you can just tell them no and keep walking. Thats not well known though so you have stormtroopers checking old ladies papers and searching all their belongings.
Oregon allows off duty officers to moonlight as armed guards so a lot of them are cops from various departments. During the 2020 protests there were a few Federal Protective Service agents patrolling the store.
10I think we shop at the same Freddy's.
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US grocery chains all push their own brands, and if they called out shrinkflation they wouldn't be able to get in on it themselves.
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29I worked at Albert Heijn in my teens and they stopped selling coca cola as they couldn't agree on a price.
Cola wanted to increase the consumer price to €1,35 for 1.5 liter bottles.
It took quite some time before the store had coca cola in stock.
I bought a bottle a couple weeks ago as we had some friends over and i laughed so hard out of misery. That same fucking bottle now costs €2,49 at Albert Heijn.
Store brand is 89 cents, which is what we used to pay for original cola .5 liter bottles.
Guys, it's just water with a bit of flavouring in it. We should all just collectively stop buying these famous brands and watch them burn. Lol
27Walmart is the only one that does, but they only do it to bully them into selling at almost no profit.
23Most American grocery chains are enjoying record profits, they’re complicit.
18"French supermarket chain is using ‘shrinkflation’ stickers to pressure PepsiCo and other suppliers"
12Wait till you hear about the plastic bag crazy. Pretty much all the chains got rid of them in my area and began selling the reusable bags. At about 2.50 each. One store I liked used to have old cardboard boxes but they want you to buy the reusable bags as they make about 2 dollars in profit per bag and the average costumer buys 1 bag per 100 in groceries. That alone is a2% increase on average in profits for the grocery chain. That is huge for them.
Worse is that they take about 50 times the energy to produce and they figure the average bag is only used 5 times before they end in a land fill. The net result is a 2.5% increase in your grocery bill and almost 10 times the increase in GHG compared to a plastic bag.
10Who throws out reusable bags after 5? I've had the same set of cloth bags for like 15 years!
38Same here. My oldest are about 18 years old now. And I use them for everything, not only to go shopping. I have the feeling they don't understand the reuse part of reusable.
6Statically the majority. Supermarkets are selling a bag per about 100 in purchases. From that you can deduce that the majority of people are only using them a few times.
UK supermarkets sold 1.5 billion reusable bags in 2019. That is 57 per household per year.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/13/world/reusable-grocery-bags-cotton-plastic-scn/index.html
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I've been using the same set of bags for 8 years now. That's a whole lot of plastic reduced.
9Your one of the rare ones. Overall it has been far worse which is concerning. Now that the supermarkets know they can make a fairly significant profits as well, they are quite happy to sell extra bags.
In 2019 UK supermarkets sold 1.5 billion reusable bags. That is 57 per household. Greenpeace estimated you need to reuse a cotton bag some 7100 times before it is the equivalent of plastic. I hope you did not buy cotton as you likely will need to have those bags for life to offset the energy needed to produce them.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/13/world/reusable-grocery-bags-cotton-plastic-scn/index.html
2My wife and I have compact, roll up shopping bags, she always has one in her handbag, mine is in my backpack, for the past 10 years. The only time we used bags from a store was when we shopped for seafood in Hong Kong's wet markets.
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Alright, this is just some silly shit right here. I have 8-10 reusable bags in my car I use every time I go to the grocery store. I've been using them for years. I threw away one so far. Who the fuck only uses them 5x?
6UK supermarkets stats in 2019 showed some 1.5 billion used in 2019. That is 57 or household every year. So the vast majority are just throwing them away. Most likely they just don't want to carry them around and opt out to buy new ones. This is particularly likely if you use public transportation I suspect.
3The "reusable" bags sold at supermarkets in Canada at least are really shitty. You're lucky to get 5 uses before the handles rip off or groceries punch right through the flimsy plastic fabric.
If you're serious about reusing bags you buy your own well made bags, but if you forgot to bring them or made an impulse buy congratulations, you now own a set of overpriced, very low quality bags... At least you'll be rid of them in a week or two lol
I use them for tasks like giving away vegetables from my garden but honestly that was a fine use for the "non-reusable" bags, we reused them constantly. They even got recycled into deck boards, the new "reusable" ones just end up in the dump.
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they did this in my area, except the chains retaliated by making their free disposable bags 'reusable' (re:thicker), which of course, no one ever does. the end result is the exact same problem only now worse because the bags take longer to decompose.
5I bet you area goes to the cotton reusable at a few dollars each. Getting an extra percentage on your margin is huge for supermarkets even if it makes no environmental sense.
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Who cares about GHG for bags? The goal is to reduce waste, so you should evaluate it based on the amount of materials used.
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Can you imagine a european grocery chain shaming its vendors for free PR? Yes. Carrefour sounds like American Publix. Pretend to be about the people, upcharge everything.
4This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Obviously, the aim in stigmatizing these products is to be able to tell manufacturers to rethink their pricing policy,” Stefen Bompais, director of client communications at Carrefour, said in an interview.
Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard, who also heads French retail industry lobby group FDC, has repeatedly said consumer goods companies are not cooperating in efforts to cut the price of thousands of staples despite a fall in the cost of raw materials.
In this he is backed by French finance minister Bruno Le Maire, who in June summoned 75 big retailers and consumer groups to his ministry urging them to cut prices.
“Lindt & Sprüngli increased its prices groupwide on average by 9.3% in line with local cost structures,” a company spokesperson told Reuters.
France, like other European countries, has been trying for months to ease consumer pain in the face of a surge in the cost of living, strong-arming big business to freeze or cut food and transport prices — with mixed results.
Le Maire said last month that consumer goods companies and retailers had agreed to bring forward annual price negotiations — which would normally have taken place next year — to September.
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3Yeah don't idolize retail chains, they're absolute scum
2Sure, Colruyt group just stops stocking certain brands from time to time. It's weird to see because they keep the spot empty until the issue is resolved.
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2I wouldn't be so stoked about it. Retail chains use alp kinds of dirty tactics to get products cheaper, this is probably one of them.
1Yes it happens but no one makes press releases about it.
0a lot of us frogs have been pointing out the warming waters to the ridicule of everyone else.
'just vote!' they say, meanwhile our 2 choices have been conservative or asshole conservative for the last, oh 50 years.
0I’m probably gonna get flak for this, but for the love of god can this site not become the same “US bad Europe good!” Circlejerk as Reddit and other sites.
I lived in France for quite some time. Things are getting equally as bad in France and a good majority of the EU in terms of COL, income stagnation, rampant anti immigrant sentiment that will (definitely) lead to extreme right wing shifts in the near term. Italy elected an almost out and about fascist extremely recently - and France is not too far behind.
Carrefour is one of the biggest super market chains in France and Europe generally, having stickers on the side of the aisle that will be removed in a few weeks once you stop gargling the company’s junk isn’t impressive.
This weird tendency to just rip the US as a whole - a continent sized country with almost the same population as the EU - is beyond ignorant and frankly kind of pathetic.
-1Sorry, I cannot hear you over the sound of my state funded healthcare system and minimum wage over the poverty line.
10That’s adorable, because I wasn’t insulting France or Europe. In fact, I was stating reality.
But sure, bear in mind your purchasing power is rapidly decreasing, Eurozone inflation rate is untenable and Ursula is seeking to expand an already fractured political bloc despite existing difficulties with the Visigrad three - sorry I’ll stop here.
It’s almost like the world is experiencing significant problems, and my comment was pointing out that Europe is hardly better off than the US on many metrics when you really start to dig into it. But sure, I’ll tell my friends who can’t pay their rents across Western Europe despite having advanced degrees they’re “doing amazingly.” Ah, and I’ll be sure to inform them that their piss poor experiences with their national healthcare systems have them clamoring for alternatives - much to conservative glee in their respective countries.
Keep your nose up Camel boy, you’re gonna need it above the stink you swim in.
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Yeah I'm trying to filter them out as much of it as I can. The Europeans are so toxic here. We live rent free in their head. It's a pretty futile effort to break their circlejerk, just like I know they'll downvote and probably give a toxic reply to this comment as well. They think what they read online is reality in America.
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