Firm closing

[SuffolkNGoode]

57 minutes ago, Albert Tatlock said:

Said you...

I said...no...I don't buy local regardless of the price.

Sorry mate...the market does not pay through the nose just to support local.

That's the very definition of 'market'.

So, no...I'm not a supporter of overpriced local...as most people in the market aren't.

Clear enough for you?

AT - Very poor example you're setting and I don't mean with regard to your personal choice to budget.

[Kopek]

4 minutes ago, The Voice of Reason said:

I’m saying the non Clubcard prices are a rip off.

Then don't buy them!

Work the system against Tesco, buy the alternative which is cheaper anyway!!!

Edited October 10, 2023 by Kopek

[Kopek]

There are rules as to what can be promoted as a 'reduced price', something like, it has to hyave been on sale at the higher price for x number of days prior to the reduced price being advertised, so it could be on sale in the Outer Hebredies for a high price in order for the main outlets to offer it at a seemingly 'low' price. Currys can be quite open about this if you read the small print on their price sticker?

[The Voice of Reason]

22 minutes ago, Kopek said:

Then don't buy them!

I don’t without my Tesco Clubcard !!

[Kopek]

51 minutes ago, genericUserName said:

OM bread flour presumably has a lower protein content than other bread flours. Hence less rise.

I've never had a problem with Manx flour, perhaps the stone ground wholewheat but the trick is to add say 20% king or queen to get the rise?

Adjusst your props and yoiu should get a perfect wholemeal result?

[Ringy Rose]

4 hours ago, Albert Tatlock said:

Tesco stocked Laxey flour at twice the price of other flour.  Buy local...my arse

Laxey Flour isn’t pumped full of the additives and chemicals that are mandatory across, so there is that.

I’d not say the local flour was a rip off.

I wonder if the lack of chemicals and additives affects how it rises? Not that I’ve ever had an issue, but I knead by hand. Great stress relief.

Edited October 10, 2023 by Ringy Rose

[Kopek]

18 minutes ago, The Voice of Reason said:

I don’t without my Tesco Clubcard !!

You're missing the point, you csn shop at Tesco without a clubcard and still pay less than with a clubcard, you just have to wary of their sticker prices, is it really abargain? or a marketing [ploy?

Have you ever seen that cheese at Tesco regular? or  is the reduced price more that you expect to pay previously???

God love Tesco but they're not giving you something for nothing.

You makes your choice. you sleep in the wet patch!!!

I don't like to think tha people are being taken by marketing ploys clubcard or not!!!

[Omobono]

4 hours ago, Roger Mexico said:

There's no point so obvious that Lawrie Hooper can't miss it.

locals loose their jobs , which are replaced by incomers without work permits on a lower wage probably not even paying income tax ,  also bringing children and elderly dependents  pressure on schools health service  and everything else for very little gain , its obvious lawrie has never had to run a business for himself , just massaged  the books , !

[CrazyDave]

5 hours ago, newaccount said:

Now that Shoprite has gone, there will presumably be no objections to Co-op expansion or Asda or a dedicated M&S Foodhall or Waitrose coming to IOM

The stores will be going.

The business behind them still exists.

That business recently objected to planning for a new gaming campus and office.

So no.  You are very wrong

 

[CrazyDave]

4 hours ago, Roger Mexico said:

There's no point so obvious that Lawrie Hooper can't miss it.

Eh?

He is right, and I think he is a grade a tit, but he is completely right in that post.

[Passing Time]

On 4/2/2022 at 6:38 PM, finlo said:

Because someone more knowledgeable than me may come up with a more precise synopsis of the situation.

No, you’re just a curtain twitching twat…

[Gladys]

8 minutes ago, Omobono said:

locals loose their jobs , which are replaced by incomers without work permits on a lower wage probably not even paying income tax ,  also bringing children and elderly dependents  pressure on schools health service  and everything else for very little gain , its obvious lawrie has never had to run a business for himself , just massaged  the books , !

Why would Tesco relocate staff at a lower wage?  Why would they not pay income tax? If they are on a lower wage, how could they support elderly family and children? 

[Kopek]

Still seems  to work though! Perhaps yopur expertise could explain why Manx bread is such a failure??

[asitis]

7 hours ago, Omobono said:

locals loose their jobs , which are replaced by incomers without work permits on a lower wage probably not even paying income tax ,  also bringing children and elderly dependents  pressure on schools health service  and everything else for very little gain , its obvious lawrie has never had to run a business for himself , just massaged  the books , !

It seems to me that the whole point of the work permit system is to protect the local workforce from outside workers. In respect of Shoprite workers currently, their welfare should be paramount, and any amount of reassurances from Tesco about re-employment can only be guaranteed by the work permit system. In respect of the system being removed imo that is folly, it is clearly not a barrier to employment if over 99% are approved. Retaining that small vestige of control could be vital on occasions, and this may well be one of them. Hooper seems to me to have little commercial awareness and would get eaten alive in the big business world where Tesco operates !

[2112]

Starship Enterprise Minister Tim Johnston been on the NPM this morning saying that assurances must be given by Tesco on local suppliers. So are IOMG interfering and setting terms and conditions? Maybe Tesco will get fed up and pull out of the deal, thereby leaving IOMG to purchase Shopshite - another ‘arms length’ company set up and layer of civil servants. I’m sure Professor Ashford could have a turn as a supermarket manager.