Is 'Rochdale Pioneers' a labour plant?

abaxas

Cant find the link ATM.

But about 2 weeks ago there was some talk of a major labour PR offensive. Getting out to the 'people' etc.

I wonder if he/she/it is a labour letter writer/plant.

fc123

Nope...she/he checks supermarket prices.

See this thread

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You can pick any product you like and prove that prices are shooting up one week or dropping the next.

Here's how it works. The supermarkets (Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys and Morrisons - "The Mults") all peg their prices against each other. The Grocer magazine has a basket of goods it sends mystery shoppers out to buy and that is used to show who is the cheapest mult.

So Asda will drop a penny or two off a basket of items. Tesco follow within a few days. Morrisons and JS walk their own path but peg themselves against the other two. So over a several month period you will find the price of several items dropping by a penny a week. Then they switch the price drop Point of Sale to different SKUs and whack these ones back up.

Frankly though there is NO retail price inflation on food if you shop around. Shoppers are now doing more planned trolley shops and less basket top-ups than they were, and have expanded their repetoire of supermarkets from 2 to 3 (with the hard discounters - Aldi, Lidl and Netto all flying). You go and shop the deals and the single price points and everything you need to buy is less. Not the individual item or the brand, or in the shop you always use. But switch brands or shops and they are dropping. And I speak as someone who monitors pricing in the mults and other retailers weekly as part of my job.

mewbie_2

Nah. He can spell OK, and makes some sense. Doesn't strike me as a git.

edit: whoops - I was actually thinking of leveller. Whatever. Brains gone. sorry.

catalepticdru

No he's not.

The reason I know? I'm married to him!

fc123

Mind you, checking supermarket prices sounds like a Govt type of job.
No making, producing or creating.

Perhaps she/he is a loyal labour supporter and does the RPI surveys one per month. We have a lovely retired FA who does our shop.....taps all the data into his handset, moans about G Brown and the mess the UK is in...and off he goes.

catalepticdru

He works in FMCG... he used to subscribe to the Grocer ages ago, used to have a flick through myself!

leveller2911

mewbie wrote: »

Nah. He can spell OK, and makes some sense. Doesn't strike me as a git.

edit: whoops - I was actually thinking of leveller. Whatever. Brains gone. sorry.

Im welling up with emotion here mewbie...:rotfl:

fc123

What's FMCG? Also what is a MULT?
Thanks

mewbie_2

leveller2911 wrote: »

Im welling up with emotion here mewbie...:rotfl:

D'ya think I overdid the emotional stuff there?

catalepticdru

FMCG - Fast Moving Consumer Goods. Mult - Multiple retailer, I think - places like Asda, Tesco et al.

Rochdale_Pioneers

FMCG = Fast Moving Consumer Goods. "Mult" is as I explained in the answer on that thread is short for "multiple grocer" - saves typing that out repeatedly.

Am I a Labour plant? Oh please do grow up. I am a party member yes, but haven't been active for more than a decade. Why would the party send me here - to convert some hardcore uder-Tories like Strickland and Wookster? Hardly worth the bother is it.

No I am here because its a good forum to discuss politics and the economy. Will I defend the facts and sanity? yes. Is Cameron a liar? yes. So is Brown. Who incidentally I was calling to quit last year. I also have said in another thread that I have been a long-standing advocate of PR. Had I got my way there would have been no Labour majority government post 2001 as PR would have created the need for consensual coalitions. Does wishing Blair's 2nd landslide away sound like a plant to anyone?

So, I am a Labour plant because I defend some of the things the government has done. On that logic there are a lot of Tory plants on here....