We're not buying it - No supermarkets on Wednesday 28 October

[Combat squirrel]

No supermarkets on Wednesday 28 October

For one day, don't buy anything from a supermarket. Food prices have to come down, and this is how we say so.

Continue to buy from your local small businesses !

Everyone not buying from supermarkets for just 1 day really messes up their 'just in time' supply model & will send a message to the billionaire supermarket owners - £483 million loses in a day will wake them up.

Just thought I'd give a heads up on OCUK as there is many members here - head down to OCUK instead & buy a 5090 instead of a couple of pasties from Tesco.

 

[Voron]

Just had a pasty from Sainsbury's.

 

[throwaway4372]

A campaign I had not heard of, they have failed to get the message out, so will have little effect.

Here's the website for it:

We're Not Buying It: no supermarkets on Wednesday 28 October

It's Budget Day. For one day, don't buy anything from a supermarket. Food prices have to come down. Sign the pledge and pass it on.

www.werenotbuyingit.co.uk

We're Not Buying It is a one-day boycott of UK supermarkets on Wednesday 28 October, the day the government delivers its Budget.
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The campaign is asking the government to use the Budget to put an immediate price cap on essential food items.

They didn't think this through. Action taken on Budget day is not going to change the content of the Budget.

I don't agree with a price cap, but I do support banning "loyalty" prices.

 

[Hagar]

Except for people like me who does a daily shop normally at Aldi will be the ones disadvantaged against those with the SUV shopping once a week with trolleyloads of goods. Whether i shop for two days on a tuesday makes 5/8 of **** all difference to the JIT deliveries but messes with my fitness hauling stuff home. The fact that the UK has some of the cheapest food prices in Europe is also valid.

 

[413x]

No supermarkets on Wednesday 28 October

For one day, don't buy anything from a supermarket. Food prices have to come down, and this is how we say so.

Continue to buy from your local small businesses !

Everyone not buying from supermarkets for just 1 day really messes up their 'just in time' supply model & will send a message to the billionaire supermarket owners - £483 million loses in a day will wake them up.

Just thought I'd give a heads up on OCUK as there is many members here - head down to OCUK instead & buy a 5090 instead of a couple of pasties from Tesco.

To what end? What is the objective of this?
Because food is an essential is not like this can really do anything.

If anything, won't it make costs rise

 

[swillsy]

If people really cared about food prices they would shop at Aldi and Lidl only... but they don't and Tesco's share is up YoY. Supply and Demand as per usual, I genuinely think the CoL crisis is overplayed. The amount of money people spend on convenience still is incredible.

 

[Kenai]

the supermarkets will be absolutely crapping themselves

 

[plasmahal]

Sorted, I only go on Saturday morning.

 

[Combat squirrel]

On every social media platform its the usual defeatist 'it wont do anything' attitude.

To be expected, sadly.

We are all programmed to just roll over and take it - something everyone does with zero effort.

Any change is change and even if this has to happen 50 times until people catch up, it will hopefully grow.

The sheer amount of people that won't lift a finger until they expect world wide change is nuts - the effort of simply NOT going out to the shop for a day and its got people all defeated

We all need to get out of this mindset of expecting instant massive change, its insane and delusional & not realistic.

Great if 1 or 2 follow along, maybe next time it will be 8 to 10, then next time 100.

An avalanche is life changing and powerful yet its made from tiny little frozen drops of water that 'make no difference'

 

[Feek]

I'll make a mental note not to buy an Apple TV on Wednesday.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Type of thing your slightly racist gran shares on Facebook

 

[Combat squirrel]

Type of thing your slightly racist gran shares on Facebook

It makes total logical sense based on the fact supermarkets use a 'just in time' delivery to their stores.

So I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion.

The willingness to just accept everything as it is......is bizarre, so many conformists here but then the demographic is older males I guess!

You'd not cope in France where they get things done!

 

[Pho]

As far as I can remember reading, supermarkets operate on very thin margins as it is. It's most likely their suppliers that are putting the costs up. So boycotting Nestlé products for example would be better.

 

[413x]

But what will it do? We are lucky there is competition because you literally can't be without food.

If the entire country went 3 days without food you'd have to buy more food after 3 days. Supply chains would be screwed and food prices would probably go up.

This isn't Netflix, an optional service

 

[Kenai]

On every social media platform its the usual defeatist 'it wont do anything' attitude.

To be expected, sadly.

We are all programmed to just roll over and take it - something everyone does with zero effort.

Any change is change and even if this has to happen 50 times until people catch up, it will hopefully grow.

The sheer amount of people that won't lift a finger until they expect world wide change is nuts - the effort of simply NOT going out to the shop for a day and its got people all defeated

We all need to get out of this mindset of expecting instant massive change, its insane and delusional & not realistic.

Great if 1 or 2 follow along, maybe next time it will be 8 to 10, then next time 100.

An avalanche is life changing and powerful yet its made from tiny little frozen drops of water that 'make no difference'

It's not about being 'defeatist', or rolling over or being programmed.

It's just a crap idea that won't work.

 

[cadmunkey]

Its gained no traction because its nonsense. Food prices are governed upstream from the chain supermarkets whose profits are generally single digits per year. Things like energy costs, global feed costs and agricultural costs drive prices far more than the 2% supermarkets add to their profits.

 

[413x]

Also. Isn't France getting to the point it's going to be screwed due to its overspend?

 

[Combat squirrel]

It's not about being 'defeatist', or rolling over or being programmed.

It's just a crap idea that won't work.

Its clearly not a crap idea because of logic and its also worth a shot and all you have to do is literally stay home or avoid a supermarket for the day.

You're crying as if you have to do a years hard labour - dude, just dont go, not hard.

 

[Combat squirrel]

Its gained no traction because its nonsense. Food prices are governed upstream from the chain supermarkets whose profits are generally single digits per year. Things like energy costs, global feed costs and agricultural costs drive prices far more than the 2% supermarkets add to their profits.

This is literally not true, Tesco alone this year have already beat 2025's figures with a profit of £3.15 billion so far, thats profit, not costs of products, so I have no idea where you think Tesco are struggling on a measly 2%.

Lets be kind and let them walk off with half a billion and put the other 2.5 billion back in to reducing the cost of food.

 

[mid_gen]

Its clearly not a crap idea because of logic and its also worth a shot and all you have to do is literally stay home or avoid a supermarket for the day.

You're crying as if you have to do a years hard labour - dude, just dont go, not hard.

It’s a terrible idea and won’t achieve anything. Supermarket supply chains will not crumble because of one quiet day, whoever claimed that is talking out of their rear.

Supermarkets do not operate on massive margins. They make small margins on large volume. Not the bad guys here….unless you’re talking about the monopoly power they have over suppliers…which happens because…..drum roll…they are super aggressive on margins and keep prices down.