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<blockquote data-quote="yellowbelly" data-source="post: 6838813" data-attributes="member: 42308"><p>OK, conspiracy theory time.</p><p></p><p>A big powerful firm like McDonalds appear to have had the'inside track' on what's going to happen. </p><p></p><p>The supermarkets are now the governments 'blue-eyed boys' (they've been allowed to ignore all competition laws etc and exchange sensitive information because Boris and Co see them as the only way to ensure the nation gets fed.)</p><p>So supermarkets are sure to know that livestock markets are going to be shut very soon.</p><p></p><p>It would certainly not be in their interests to end markets with the record prices that we've seen in the last couple of weeks as that would set a dangerous precedent for what we could argue we should be paid when deadweight is our only option.</p><p></p><p>So, they 'knock their heads together', and lop 30 or 40 quid off a hogg overnight. When Boris shuts markets down, in the next few days, they've now got a much more lucrative market price (for them) to use to base their d/w offers on.</p><p></p><p>Remind anybody of F&M??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yellowbelly, post: 6838813, member: 42308"] OK, conspiracy theory time. A big powerful firm like McDonalds appear to have had the'inside track' on what's going to happen. The supermarkets are now the governments 'blue-eyed boys' (they've been allowed to ignore all competition laws etc and exchange sensitive information because Boris and Co see them as the only way to ensure the nation gets fed.) So supermarkets are sure to know that livestock markets are going to be shut very soon. It would certainly not be in their interests to end markets with the record prices that we've seen in the last couple of weeks as that would set a dangerous precedent for what we could argue we should be paid when deadweight is our only option. So, they 'knock their heads together', and lop 30 or 40 quid off a hogg overnight. When Boris shuts markets down, in the next few days, they've now got a much more lucrative market price (for them) to use to base their d/w offers on. Remind anybody of F&M?? [/QUOTE]
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