Indeed, I find the whole debacle bizarre.
Surely, it's good business to keep one's suppliers happy, and their businesses profitable.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:13,
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I'm still surprised the suppliers don't decide the price.
If I go into a shop and see something marked at £10, I can't just go "I want this and I've decided I'm only going to pay £5 for it so there."
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:28,
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If your product is perishable
you'll sell it for what you can get for it. The choice is simply 'some money' or 'no money'.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:40,
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but surely from the buyer's point of view,
it's also "milk" or "no milk". I can't go into a supermarket either and tell them how much I want to pay for milk, I pay their price or don't get milk.
I thought the free market was supposed to sort all this out and ensure fair prices for everybody.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:52,
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The price of milk is an important tool for supermarkets to look like they're cheap.
Along with bread and whatever else people almost always buy, the price is under constant scruitiny by the public. This lets the supermarkets charge more for the items people only get occasionally, which people are less likely to have a firmly fixed idea of how much they're willing to pay.
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Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:59,
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oddly I usually find it cheaper in the grocers.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 15:01,
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It is.
There's only four or five companies who process milk and they hold the power, not the producers.
Can anyone spell cartel?
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i can !
well maybe i can if i have enough time and i realy realy wanted to
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fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 15:25,
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