On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:27:45 +0100, Phil Cook wrote:

>> Heh, well, I know for many of the fast food chains, they don't have a
>> choice, because they're actually owned by Pepsico or Coca-Cola.  I used
>> to work for a company that did outsourced benefits management (for both
>> companies, oddly enough), and seeing the brands that came in with those
>> agreements was surprising.
> 
> Kind of the current joys with the privatised water companies here where
> you can choose to have your water supplied by Company A, Company A or
> Company A. But hey at least the fast-food companies are agreeing to this
> ;-)

Yeah, it's a nice "choice" isn't it?

>> That'd be an interesting thing to look at....
> 
> Indeed something that should have been carried out by the Competition
> Commision in their last study if their brief wasn't so restricted. Oh
> yes there's plenty of competition between supermarkets provided you do
> one third of your shopping in Sainsbury's, one-third in Tesco, and the
> remainding third at Asda. Doesn't everyone shop this way?

Well, I know we do most of our grocery shopping at CostCo, with specialty 
items from specialty shops, and fresh produce from the local supermarket 
(buying produce in bulk doesn't make sense, it just tends to go off).

Jim

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