Nah,that was a mistake,they thought they were buying ASDA not ADAS…….
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Morrisons being bought out .
- Thread starter bobk
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You can't though. Not once the infrastructure - live markets, local abattoirs, local processors - has gone. It may not have gone in your neck of the woods as much as it has where there are less cattle, but across the country it is going. Year on year the choices are being reduced. And there is only one way to reverse the trend.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Their is no abattoir round here but still a mart , farmers send lives stock from hundreds of miles , it’s heart warming to see some are still switched on enough to know live marketing is their protection and go out their way to protect it !
They aint hauling stock hundreds of miles through choice, it's because their local markets have gone, because they aren't finishers, and/ or because they aren't at a scale to interest DW buyers.
It's not sustainable to think that a few live markets can keep thousands of independent beef producers going, because it is to ignore what has happened to pigs/ poultry/ veg/ fruit/ milk......
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
They are sending full wagon loads of fat stock and store stock to a mart , some are very large farmers, better than sending direct imo and will very much be in the sights of dw buyers but they know what side their bread is butterd on , but sadly they are not the majority , the worst offenders are the large producers who seek direct then take the out of spec stock to mart to surpress the price per kilo ....... they really are falling for the three card trick .
M-J-G
Member
It wouldn't shock me if your local market doesn't see the end of the 20s.
When you go there on a Monday and see how many wages are being paid out of a pitiful amount of stock, one has to wonder how long it will last.
I'd hoped it being bought out by a large company would have helped breath some new life into the area, but it doesn't see to have.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
but it’s up to the farmers to save it no one else not even the owners, the other one at willer is even worse , nice to see artics loads coming in from north Scotland but heart breaking the locals can hardly even support the place , and good stock makes every bit as much their as anywhere.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
When it’s closed the first to moan will be the ones that haven’t been supporting them .
Really didn't no that
Johnnyboxer
Member
- Location
- Yorkshire
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Surely the easiest option is to dump them in a local mart, even letting drovers sort them into lots for you, and hope a buyer turns up and the dealers don’t get to lift your leg too far when they buy them to sell dw?
M-J-G
Member
I don't doubt that, we'll be fortunate enough as we're almost as close to Stirling or Lanark as we are to St Boswells.
But it will leave quite a hole in the borders, I guess Longtown will absorb the sheep trade since they have taken a lot of it already.
wanton dwarf
Member
It probably will do.
Morrisons has gone massively down hill over the past 10+ years. Our local Morrisons went dirty, poor hygene and the staff looked ill kept and dirty.
Saw one member of staff with some skin disease (Pustules) - saw them collapse in an aisle. Never been back since.
I have no idea who they think they are catering for but it's not for me.
And isn’t it a “cash offer” they would be daft to not take it!
capfits
Member
They own 85 % of their sites,
they have a tie up with Amazon,
they own a substantive part of their processing requirements,
Why should they take the first offer?
245p close tomorrow evening?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Quite. Morrisons haven't said it's not for sale, just rejected the offer saying that it substantially undervalues the company.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Why so angry @Hilly ? Would you not agree that dropping stock into the live market is the 'easy option' for most? It's certainly far easier than jumping through any hoops required by any of the supermarket contracts.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
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no i wouldn’t agree, getting stock picked up at the farm is the easiest option and is absuotly the reason many do sell that way as that’s what they say , it’s easy and have no time to go to Mart .
M-J-G
Member
It's equally as easy to get them picked up at the farm and sent to a market as it is to kill direct.
There's no real need to be at the market to sell if you don't have time to be there.
I know several who aren't quality assured who send stock to the market because they'd be required to tick yet another box to kill stock direct.
There's no real need to be at the market to sell if you don't have time to be there.
I know several who aren't quality assured who send stock to the market because they'd be required to tick yet another box to kill stock direct.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Morrison’s shares up 30% this morning apparently.