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Waitrose bans Warburtons from shelves:

HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 32,411
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Supermarket giant's crumpet sales take a hit after mysteriously removing Brexit-backing family brand from shelves in 'row over performance'



John Lewis-owned Waitrose is reportedly locked in a year-long commercial dispute with bakers Warburtons, which makes 2.3million crumpets a week and 472million loaves a year.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11627417/Waitrose-bans-Warburtons-shelves-disgust-shoppers.html
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    EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,077
    Love the Mail's attempt to shoehorn Brexit into a purely domestic commercial contract dispute.

    Waitrose aren't "banning" Warburtons. They are just not buying their products, because they consider the quality is not consistent. The end.

    It's up to anyone whether they choose to buy someone's products. True for shoppers. Equally true for Waitrose. Doesn't matter if they are right or wrong-it is the choice of any Buyer.

    Supermarkets cull thousands of products every year. Sometimes on quality, sometimes on supply issues, sometimes due to falling demand, but mostly on price.

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    HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 32,411
    Essexphil said:

    Love the Mail's attempt to shoehorn Brexit into a purely domestic commercial contract dispute.

    Waitrose aren't "banning" Warburtons. They are just not buying their products, because they consider the quality is not consistent. The end.

    It's up to anyone whether they choose to buy someone's products. True for shoppers. Equally true for Waitrose. Doesn't matter if they are right or wrong-it is the choice of any Buyer.

    Supermarkets cull thousands of products every year. Sometimes on quality, sometimes on supply issues, sometimes due to falling demand, but mostly on price.

    Massive order to lose.
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    HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 32,411
    Essexphil said:

    Love the Mail's attempt to shoehorn Brexit into a purely domestic commercial contract dispute.

    Waitrose aren't "banning" Warburtons. They are just not buying their products, because they consider the quality is not consistent. The end.

    It's up to anyone whether they choose to buy someone's products. True for shoppers. Equally true for Waitrose. Doesn't matter if they are right or wrong-it is the choice of any Buyer.

    Supermarkets cull thousands of products every year. Sometimes on quality, sometimes on supply issues, sometimes due to falling demand, but mostly on price.

    And Brexiteers claimed the middle-class supermarket's decision 'must be' because its owner backed Britain leaving the EU while Remainers seized upon the row, declaring: 'Warburtons supported Brexit, made this country suffer. It's only fair now they suffer'.


    Sources on both sides said it was for commercial reasons, not Britain leaving the EU.

    But some Remainers have delighted in the decision - having campaigned for Waitrose and other supermarkets to stop stocking Warburtons due to its Brexit-backing boss.

    One said: 'This is totally deserved. Warburtons supported Brexit, made this country suffer. It's only fair now they suffer as much or more than the rest of us for it. Their customers have spoken. #RejoinEU'.

    Another tweeted: 'I'm delighted to read that have withdrawn all Warburtons products from its shelves as they were 'below expectations'. Mind you, I'd prefer that they weren't stocked at all, as Warburtons were brexit supporters'.

    One remainer said sarcastically: 'That would be the same Warburtons that supports Brexit? What a shame'.

    Waitrose this weekend claimed that Warburtons' 'performance didn't meet our expectations', in a rebuke which caused the bakery's chairman Jonathan Warburton to call the removal of his products from the shelves of stores across the country 'a shame'.



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    EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,077
    HAYSIE said:

    Essexphil said:

    Love the Mail's attempt to shoehorn Brexit into a purely domestic commercial contract dispute.

    Waitrose aren't "banning" Warburtons. They are just not buying their products, because they consider the quality is not consistent. The end.

    It's up to anyone whether they choose to buy someone's products. True for shoppers. Equally true for Waitrose. Doesn't matter if they are right or wrong-it is the choice of any Buyer.

    Supermarkets cull thousands of products every year. Sometimes on quality, sometimes on supply issues, sometimes due to falling demand, but mostly on price.

    And Brexiteers claimed the middle-class supermarket's decision 'must be' because its owner backed Britain leaving the EU while Remainers seized upon the row, declaring: 'Warburtons supported Brexit, made this country suffer. It's only fair now they suffer'.


    Sources on both sides said it was for commercial reasons, not Britain leaving the EU.

    But some Remainers have delighted in the decision - having campaigned for Waitrose and other supermarkets to stop stocking Warburtons due to its Brexit-backing boss.

    One said: 'This is totally deserved. Warburtons supported Brexit, made this country suffer. It's only fair now they suffer as much or more than the rest of us for it. Their customers have spoken. #RejoinEU'.

    Another tweeted: 'I'm delighted to read that have withdrawn all Warburtons products from its shelves as they were 'below expectations'. Mind you, I'd prefer that they weren't stocked at all, as Warburtons were brexit supporters'.

    One remainer said sarcastically: 'That would be the same Warburtons that supports Brexit? What a shame'.

    Waitrose this weekend claimed that Warburtons' 'performance didn't meet our expectations', in a rebuke which caused the bakery's chairman Jonathan Warburton to call the removal of his products from the shelves of stores across the country 'a shame'.



    People are just fixated by Brexit. I'm not saying it isn't important-it is-but people try and attribute everything to it.

    This has absolutely nothing to do with Brexit-either for or against.

    These people are delusional. This is all about the money-on both sides.
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    goldongoldon Member Posts: 8,533
    It's a War....winners & losers
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    HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 32,411
    Essexphil said:

    HAYSIE said:

    Essexphil said:

    Love the Mail's attempt to shoehorn Brexit into a purely domestic commercial contract dispute.

    Waitrose aren't "banning" Warburtons. They are just not buying their products, because they consider the quality is not consistent. The end.

    It's up to anyone whether they choose to buy someone's products. True for shoppers. Equally true for Waitrose. Doesn't matter if they are right or wrong-it is the choice of any Buyer.

    Supermarkets cull thousands of products every year. Sometimes on quality, sometimes on supply issues, sometimes due to falling demand, but mostly on price.

    And Brexiteers claimed the middle-class supermarket's decision 'must be' because its owner backed Britain leaving the EU while Remainers seized upon the row, declaring: 'Warburtons supported Brexit, made this country suffer. It's only fair now they suffer'.


    Sources on both sides said it was for commercial reasons, not Britain leaving the EU.

    But some Remainers have delighted in the decision - having campaigned for Waitrose and other supermarkets to stop stocking Warburtons due to its Brexit-backing boss.

    One said: 'This is totally deserved. Warburtons supported Brexit, made this country suffer. It's only fair now they suffer as much or more than the rest of us for it. Their customers have spoken. #RejoinEU'.

    Another tweeted: 'I'm delighted to read that have withdrawn all Warburtons products from its shelves as they were 'below expectations'. Mind you, I'd prefer that they weren't stocked at all, as Warburtons were brexit supporters'.

    One remainer said sarcastically: 'That would be the same Warburtons that supports Brexit? What a shame'.

    Waitrose this weekend claimed that Warburtons' 'performance didn't meet our expectations', in a rebuke which caused the bakery's chairman Jonathan Warburton to call the removal of his products from the shelves of stores across the country 'a shame'.



    People are just fixated by Brexit. I'm not saying it isn't important-it is-but people try and attribute everything to it.

    This has absolutely nothing to do with Brexit-either for or against.

    These people are delusional. This is all about the money-on both sides.
    I am not sure what it is really about, but definitely nothing to do with Brexit.
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    rabdenirorabdeniro Member Posts: 4,226
    Why do newspapers insist on printing what people are saying on twatter or fuckbook, they could be the biggest loonies oot there, nobody knows who they really are.
    Do they not employ real life journos any more to ask the question ?.
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    goldongoldon Member Posts: 8,533
    Lock Down has shown it's easier to stay at home and make it up.... affme heed.!!
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