supermarket model for 100 years has been to break even on basic goods and make profit on nonessential, but on payment by suppliers and cutting costs and logically they are already keeping the cost of basics down and we know they are transferring some of those profits from nonessential goods from alcohol and chocolate for example and cost cutting into trying to keep those places of basics are low. so it is a difficult one, when will they go on this. we understand somethin: will they go on this. we understand something similar will they go on this. we understand something similar has will they go on this. we understand something similar has been - will they go on this. we understand something similar has been tried i something similar has been tried with some success in france, couldn t lessons be learned? i think so and it is couldn t lessons be learned? i think so and it is a couldn t lessons be learned? i think so and it is a case couldn t lessons be learned? i think so and
goods that they get, and from alcohol and chocolate, for example, and from cost cutting, into trying to keep those prices of the basics low. so, yeah, it s a difficult one. where are they going to go on this? that is a good question, but we understand something similar has been tried with some success in france. could lessons be learnt there? i think so, and it s a case of choosing what you go for but, of course, cost structures and the way the industry works in france is somewhat different to the uk. i think, essentially, what the government are putting pressure on the supermarkets to do or talking to them about, shall we say, is to leverage what they really have, which is bargaining power down the supply chain. the trouble is, as your previous speaker said, the suppliers, particularly the farmers and growers, are already cutting their costs down to the bone,
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