| Comment | *this* guy, like you're only talking to me. The reality of our current society is that everything is incredibly expensive, do you know how much it costs with delivery to get stock of any amount. Now I'm talking and coming from a background of relatively low quantity, but even at that the cost of sales for items is beyond sustainable for any bussiness.
If a local supermarket is easier, more accessible and more importantly cheaper than a wholesale supplier, wholesale btw SHOULD be cheaper, that's the entire point, high quantity lower price but right now it is not cheaper, not by any stretch of the imagination right now, with brexit and ukraine, and National insurance rises AND minimum wage rises all at once the cost of EVERYTHING is through the roof.
Ultimately it is up the store managers discretion what they do in their store and what they think is best.
Local restraunts are going to choose the path of least resistance, unless you are somewhere doing fine dining where the experience is worth an extra heft chunk of change to make up for the cost of the rest of the service. And if, as someone else in this thread said, a local takeaway let the shop they are going to know that they are gonna be buying 50 packs of peppers, then i am sure the regular shoppers would rather not be left without. |
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