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RT Outers - Divert Your Eyes
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<blockquote data-quote="Brisel" data-source="post: 7430791" data-attributes="member: 166"><p>Hopefully someone who supplies the retailers with fresh produce will comment on this. It's a fair question & I've said before that personally, I'm not against an assurance scheme, just not this runaway train of Jim Moseley's.</p><p></p><p>The vegetables I used to grow had to be part of whatever scheme that retailer wanted e.g. Nature's Choice or Leaf Marque. That was a while ago & the supermarkets have escalated this in an effort to provide points of difference over their competitors. Ask a potato grower how many schemes they are in & Red Tractor is by far the least stringent. From my limited discussions with growers since, these schemes are a condition of market access though to get into that market the retailers did pay a bit more, even if they kept raising the bar for no additional premium. Does that sound familiar?</p><p></p><p>I used to grow wheat for Warburtons & Weetabix. Both wanted more than just RT but not much more & it wasn't costing us a great deal to get access to those markets that paid a small premium. I was happy to supply them and it served us well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brisel, post: 7430791, member: 166"] Hopefully someone who supplies the retailers with fresh produce will comment on this. It's a fair question & I've said before that personally, I'm not against an assurance scheme, just not this runaway train of Jim Moseley's. The vegetables I used to grow had to be part of whatever scheme that retailer wanted e.g. Nature's Choice or Leaf Marque. That was a while ago & the supermarkets have escalated this in an effort to provide points of difference over their competitors. Ask a potato grower how many schemes they are in & Red Tractor is by far the least stringent. From my limited discussions with growers since, these schemes are a condition of market access though to get into that market the retailers did pay a bit more, even if they kept raising the bar for no additional premium. Does that sound familiar? I used to grow wheat for Warburtons & Weetabix. Both wanted more than just RT but not much more & it wasn't costing us a great deal to get access to those markets that paid a small premium. I was happy to supply them and it served us well. [/QUOTE]
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