While it’s obviously great, it’s just clever marketing.
Everyone is complaining about price gouging especially around petrol and diesel, so let’s lower the price of two essential items in the middle of all that.
But like I said it’s good, and it only takes one to make a change which forces all the competitors to follow suit. Well done Lidl
MainNewspaper897 on
Hope farmers won’t feel the knock on effect.
Yes, some farmers have 200 cows (greed/ intensive farming) and the effects of milk quotas being down away with heard ago. Many still have under 50 and aren’t on a low income as a result
SquareRegular8997 on
As a baker who spends around 50 euro a week on butter, thank you ðŸ˜
Good on them. Taking more of a first step to tackle cost of living than our own government, local commerce and native supermarkets.
LuckyConstruction546 on
A 10% cut for a product like butter is significant.
I did not think shops like lidl ran margins above 2% on competitive staples.
RobotIcHead on
I would be worried if was a dairy farmer, (my brother is). But a lot of dairy farmers have borrowed massively and made projections based on the price of milk. But fuel, fertiliser and the price of replacement animals have gone a lot in recent weeks. If the price they get paid for milk goes down (it is down compared with highs from a year or two ago) they will really be in trouble.
BTW most of these big dairy farms are now corporate entities, a lot of the smaller farmers have been pushed from the market. Also while supermarket chains are powerful, milk and butter are very much global markets. Creameries/coops can still sell elsewhere.
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While it’s obviously great, it’s just clever marketing.
Everyone is complaining about price gouging especially around petrol and diesel, so let’s lower the price of two essential items in the middle of all that.
But like I said it’s good, and it only takes one to make a change which forces all the competitors to follow suit. Well done Lidl
Hope farmers won’t feel the knock on effect.
Yes, some farmers have 200 cows (greed/ intensive farming) and the effects of milk quotas being down away with heard ago. Many still have under 50 and aren’t on a low income as a result
As a baker who spends around 50 euro a week on butter, thank you ðŸ˜
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Good on them. Taking more of a first step to tackle cost of living than our own government, local commerce and native supermarkets.
A 10% cut for a product like butter is significant.
I did not think shops like lidl ran margins above 2% on competitive staples.
I would be worried if was a dairy farmer, (my brother is). But a lot of dairy farmers have borrowed massively and made projections based on the price of milk. But fuel, fertiliser and the price of replacement animals have gone a lot in recent weeks. If the price they get paid for milk goes down (it is down compared with highs from a year or two ago) they will really be in trouble.
BTW most of these big dairy farms are now corporate entities, a lot of the smaller farmers have been pushed from the market. Also while supermarket chains are powerful, milk and butter are very much global markets. Creameries/coops can still sell elsewhere.