Whichever way Tesco twist the facts or spin the yarn, there is no denying that the personal welfare or financial security of the farmers who supply products to the leading supermarket chains feature high up on their lists of priorities. Tesco openly declared on their website, http://www.tescocorporate.com/ that ‘2007 was a challenging year for many UK farmers, with continued increases in the costs of feed and energy, and … changes to subsidy payments.’
SO WHY, WE ASK, at the start of 2008 do you then announce that you have cut the price of chicken?
It’s not like Tesco are short of a penny or two, they had just announced 3 weeks earlier a ‘STRONG GROWTH’ from their Christmas and New Year Trading Statement, disclosing a sales increase of 12.8% in the weeks leading up to the festive period. This on top of last years recorded annual profit of approximately £2.5 billion. So why are farmers being under paid for their services to Britain’s largest supermarket chain?
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