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So? Tesco and Sainsbury's don't have a monopoly when there's an M&S foodhall and a Waitrose nearby. It's irrelevant that they're a tad expensive.
my point is that where i was in london, thats all there was for about a half mile radius, sainsburys and tescos, not exactly fair
microsoft does have a monopoly, they have effectively tried stopping all competition from developing OSs from maturing into fully useful products, with its army of laywers protecting software patents
one reason why software patents are crap, cause you cant do the same effect, but more efficiently, as the patent is far too generic, protection should only cover the code
MS know people will use what gets bundled with their computers, why they put IE on as standard, to stop people needing to think "what browser will i get", or with media player too, and with firewalls now, as if i left my computer as it was by default and what they "recomend for stability" id be lumbered with IE, windows media player 10 and the windows firewall, none of which i use (i use wmp9 cause its less ram greedy and good for films)
thats how they got into their position
they jumped on board with ibm who had a monopoly in the 80s, why all old pcs are "ibm compatibile" to get a monopoly, then ibm lost theirs through multiple hardware manfacturers, but ms was nicely in there
unless you disagree with the eu and us courts ruling that microsoft abuses its position in order to kill competition
anyway food hasnt got the same compatibility issues
what kind of point is that?
M&S and Waitrose food cost more but its good quality. I wouldn't eat a Chinese takeaway, I know someone who supplies chicken to quite a few around London, he imports the chicken breasts from Thailand - at least he thinks its chicken!!
The food is from the same source.
It's packaged differently at the end of the process and marked up to gullible wealthy folk who can't tell the difference and don't bother checking.
I'm genuinely interested in this. Were they using the same products, packaging them differently and selling them at different prices?
All manufacturers do it - paint companies will put exactly the same paint into different tins because they know that rich people equate spending money with getting quality because they are dim. Whiskey makers use different botles for the same stuff for the same reason.
I am sure that you do something similar in your own business. What is your business by the way?
Have you ever heard of Trading Standards?
Up to you mate.
Ever heard of "powerful lobby"?
More slightly racist shite from our resident tory boy.
IF THE Labour Party is returned to power on May 5th, with prudent chancellor Gordon Brown still sitting in the treasury like the Manx Cat in Alice in Wonderland, perhaps he should consider nationalising supermarket chain Tesco, which turned in a £2 billion plus profit yesterday.
At a stroke, a re-elected Labour Party could use the £2 billion profit to open endless numbers of ID card stations for the population at convenient locations on the High Street or at out of town locations on a motorway.
The numerous filling stations controlled by Tesco could be re-deployed using fantastic computerised technology to check on whether vehicles are properly licensed or not, while the supply of Senegalese mandarin oranges could be halted and replaced with juicy fruits from European Union partners Spain and Portugal.
After a few years, Tesco could be privatised, with a re-elected Labour Party reaping more boons from the sell off of the mega grocery. Are you thinking what we're thinking, Gordon?
1) Nothing to do with me.
2) I was being paid from the money made by it.
3) I found the whole thing very amusing.
4) I see you admit I am right now. Thanks.
5) Who's "bleating"? You were talking shite. I pointed out why.
In terms of supplier/supermarket relationships, where I work we deal with the supermarkets first hand and they are all much of a muchness - the bigger ones tend to be more demanding and awkward over deliveries but the smaller ones are more fiddly to process as they don't update their product lists very often or order regularly causing problems when we need to process their orders.
I've also worked in farms and I remember leeks, especially, being packaged depending upon where it ended up. Exactly the same product, up to 4 times as expensive depending on the supermarket.
To be honest; I thought everyone knew this, you always pay for packaging.
And as for prefering a waitrose ready meal to a chinese take away... if you think a take away might not be clean you've never worked the processing plants that produce ready meals.
Jesus. That's a first.
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decent chinese take away wins over any ready meal
dont beat home cooking though
ready meals = yuck
Chinese food is filled with MSG
i said proper chinese food doesnt have MSG in it, well it does but from cooking with the ingredients that have it in trace, when its alright
most/dodgy chinese take away use msg that comes in big bags of salt, my local doesnt