Pick yer poison......

[paladin]

Suppliers views on the relationship with Supermarkets:

11.20 In all three samples about 60% of relationships were classed as good or excellent, 35% as only acceptable, and 5% as poor or bad.
This suggests a huge degree of satisfaction generally, although there may be a bias in the replies, in that any suppliers with poor or bad relationships with their main party customer (ie Supermarkets) are unlikely to remain suppliers for long

Hardly rocket science this report, but I thought this part summed it up nicely

[caine]

Any supporting evidence? Who is the Dairy producer in the UK who pays £1m pa to supply supermarkets (and is it the supermarkets who get the cash?)

As regards the second group of practices, relating to suppliers, we received many allegations from suppliers about the behaviour of the main parties in the course of their trading relationships. Most suppliers were unwilling to be named, or to name the main party that was the subject of the allegation. There appeared to us to be a climate of apprehension among many suppliers in their relationship with the main parties. We therefore put a list of 52 alleged practices to the main parties and asked them to tell us which of them they had engaged in during the last five years. We found that a majority of these practices were carried out by many of the main parties. They included requiring or requesting from some of their suppliers various non-cost-related payments or discounts, sometimes retrospectively; imposing charges and making changes to contractual arrangements without adequate notice; and unreasonably transferring risks from the main party to the supplier. We believed that, where the request came from a main party with buyer power, it amounted to the same thing as a requirement.

http://www.competition-commission.org.u ... 6super.htm

cheers duncan.

[paladin]

Allegations and beliefs are hardly supporting evidence, more opinion.

I could allege that the Competition Commission write lengthy reports that have no real teeth, in the belief that the more they write, the more chance they have of staying in a job.

[duncan]

Allegations and beliefs are hardly supporting evidence, more opinion.

are you in the employ of Tesco or something?