| Comment | Yeah I honestly think there needs to be system-wide shake ups to make it possible. Tesco (which I'm using as a stand in for all supermarkets) gets business because it's cheap - substantially cheaper than many of the alternatives. People need to minimise their spending on food because all of their other costs are relatively static and high. There's a lower limit on how cheap rent and council tax can possibly be and the closer you get to that lower limit, the more trade-offs there are. Gas & electricity was, before now, relatively fixed, but now that's sky-rocketing. Incomes are pretty much static, but they're low for many. Until people have a lot more disposable income in their hands, we're never going to see people move away from Tesco. They just can't afford to. So all these wonderful little shops out there that use local produce and work to reduce their environmental impact, as fantastic an idea as they are, are inaccessible to many. Their clientele will be restricted to the well-off (and you can see that in where they set up shop...) until some major changes happen. |
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