Falling Standards
A comment in the 'It's Tipping' thread stated "Watch the retail sector take full advantage of Brexit uncertainty"
We'll, it's happening. Article below concerns falling quality of products which imo is a price increase ....but hang on! Expect prices will also rise ....a double whammy? But right now my principal gripe is the cat won't touch either Felix or Whiskas whereas before, she'd wolf them down. A net search shows others having same problem.
standards down
We'll, it's happening. Article below concerns falling quality of products which imo is a price increase ....but hang on! Expect prices will also rise ....a double whammy? But right now my principal gripe is the cat won't touch either Felix or Whiskas whereas before, she'd wolf them down. A net search shows others having same problem.
standards down
Out of interest I have been checking the source of products in our two main supermarkets down here, Waitrose and Sainsburys.
Most of the fruit and veg is either UK or non-EU sourced apart from tomatoes and most of the leave.
Much of the other is from Africa, Latin-America, South Africa and the like (and quite a fair bit is from local UK suppliers' heated greenhouse and polytunnels, including some delicious small tomatoes)
Meat, (the little we get from the supermarkets) is UK sourced and we buy the rest from our local farm shops
Milk and dairy products are mostly UK sourced as is most of our fresh fish (we do live on the coast which may help)
There is an awful lot of BS being distributed both as part of "Project Fear" and as a tool for the price of local products to be pushed up, for example why has UK sourced butter gone up from £1.90 to £2.90 in the last year, same a Waitrose Chicken Consommé soup from 0.99p to £1.50'ish in a similar time.
They are also reducing the pack size of confectionary items whilst keeping prices the same or increasing them, but that of course is purely in the interests of maintaining our health by reducing sugar
The entire mass market system is a rip-off which is why, whenever possible, I shop at our local suppliers of fresh food and anything else I can find
Most of the fruit and veg is either UK or non-EU sourced apart from tomatoes and most of the leave.
Much of the other is from Africa, Latin-America, South Africa and the like (and quite a fair bit is from local UK suppliers' heated greenhouse and polytunnels, including some delicious small tomatoes)
Meat, (the little we get from the supermarkets) is UK sourced and we buy the rest from our local farm shops
Milk and dairy products are mostly UK sourced as is most of our fresh fish (we do live on the coast which may help)
There is an awful lot of BS being distributed both as part of "Project Fear" and as a tool for the price of local products to be pushed up, for example why has UK sourced butter gone up from £1.90 to £2.90 in the last year, same a Waitrose Chicken Consommé soup from 0.99p to £1.50'ish in a similar time.
They are also reducing the pack size of confectionary items whilst keeping prices the same or increasing them, but that of course is purely in the interests of maintaining our health by reducing sugar
The entire mass market system is a rip-off which is why, whenever possible, I shop at our local suppliers of fresh food and anything else I can find
Quote:Just bought a lettuce in our local Sainsburys and it was grown in Yorkshire
Foreign muck!
Seems falling quality and lower standards isn't just about cat food - planes grounded
Crashing airliners isn't exactly a new thing, remember Comet ?
No it's not (obviously) but the Comet tragedies were way back when safety and R&D were in their infancy in relation to wide-bodied, passenger carrying jets. We don't know why the Max 8s crashed but if incompetence is to blame, or corner cutting (i.e. - dishonesty) it reinforces the notion that standards are falling in a number of respects
The Comet tragedies were caused by bad design and lack of knowledge of metal fatigue. The passenger windows had square corners and a crack started there..
I was three miles away from the Trident crash at Staines, it could have landed on me! (Probable crew member conflict.)
It may be that the Boeings crashed because of a lack of communication between crew and computer or vice versa, or a sensor to computer problem, too early to say, but these has been problems with fly by wire systems. Airbus have found that out the hard way.
The 737 is a narrow bodied aircraft.
I was three miles away from the Trident crash at Staines, it could have landed on me! (Probable crew member conflict.)
It may be that the Boeings crashed because of a lack of communication between crew and computer or vice versa, or a sensor to computer problem, too early to say, but these has been problems with fly by wire systems. Airbus have found that out the hard way.
The 737 is a narrow bodied aircraft.
I noticed this thread weeks back. Just had a look now, and it refers to food.
Falling standards ?????? BBC -DANNY BAKER, and he has already been sacked once by the BBC for some transgression. It seems as though if you can spout rubbish and muck, without stopping for breath, then the BBC will employ you for a wage/salary which us plebs could only dream about. That applies to all their presenters on R1 (which I never listen to.)
This 1 p.m only wanted the weather forecast - had to endure climate change once again;Royal Baby - described as "new baby". I think science will confirm my uneducated belief that - "NO OLD BABY" has ever been born. And then Ed Sh*****, and his riches. I would not employ him to sing my dog to sleep.
Falling standards ?????? BBC -DANNY BAKER, and he has already been sacked once by the BBC for some transgression. It seems as though if you can spout rubbish and muck, without stopping for breath, then the BBC will employ you for a wage/salary which us plebs could only dream about. That applies to all their presenters on R1 (which I never listen to.)
This 1 p.m only wanted the weather forecast - had to endure climate change once again;Royal Baby - described as "new baby". I think science will confirm my uneducated belief that - "NO OLD BABY" has ever been born. And then Ed Sh*****, and his riches. I would not employ him to sing my dog to sleep.
