Various supermarkets are crowing that they are riding the credit crunch well making good profits and appealing to all tastes to provide wide choice and what consumers want.
Yet I was appalled when I recently visited a large very busy branch in west London by the blatant filling of every conceivable centimetre of floor space blocking access to the freezers, even adding acohol on to the end of the soft drinks aisle and yoghourt sections.
The first thing you see as soon as you enter the store is a huge display of cheap alcohol filling the large entrance. You cannot miss it nor the other countless cheap beer and wine temporary displays all around the store. Yet we are spending large amounts of money in the anti-obesity
healthy towns initiative just announced this week but here are the supermarkets in the run-up to Christmas peddling for all they are worth cheap alcohol offers and white sugar and flour biscuits and mince pies. There seems to be no sense in this other than the supermarkets making huge profits on the backs of those who are addicted to alcohol, tobacco and sugar. Then we spend huge amounts of tax payers money to try to sort out the problems of under-age drinking, obesity, and heart problems as well as lung cancer from tobacco.
Daft.
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