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Originally Posted by Solicitous
Not sure of how things are operated in the US, but certainly here in Australia that practice happens. Woolworths and Coles (major supermarket chains) are renowned for talking to suppliers and setting the price at which they will buy it at, usually at or just below cost to produce...................................
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Absolutely the same in UK. I know from experience of friends in farming - think milk, butter, veg, meat, eggs etc... things you can't actually live without, not non-essentials - they are screwed badly by the big supermarket chains in this manner fairly mercilessly.
Except for the few niche, so-called "premium" lines which they use to trumpet how much they care for quality, the environment, blah blah....
You don't like the terms ? There's always some other poor sod ready to step in. Milk is the prime example - it has to be sold to someone, or tipped away.