Carrefour sticks price warnings on food to shame suppliers
Carrefour sticks price warnings on food to shame suppliers
French supermarket chain Carrefour has slapped price warnings on products from Lindt chocolates to Lipton Ice Tea to pressure top consumer goods suppliers Nestle, PepsiCo and Unilever to reduce inflation ahead of much-anticipated contract talks.
French supermarket chain Carrefour has slapped price warnings on products from Lindt chocolates to Lipton Ice Tea to pressure top consumer goods suppliers Nestle, PepsiCo and Unilever to reduce inflation ahead of much-anticipated contract talks.
Yeah...except the supermarkets are renowned for treating suppliers like shit. This is pure white washing. Source - my fiancé's dad used to be a manager of a large supermarket in France (but not Carrefour).
except the supermarkets are renowned for treating suppliers like shit.
How so?
Supermarkets are the source sales for vendors so they have more power during negotiations. Alot of vendors want contracts with big businesses (supermarkets) because their supply chain network but give up a lot of negotiation power.
An example. Vendors mostly use a cost plus pricing. Think cost+oh&p(15%)=price to store. During contract negotiations vendor A can push for an increase in price due to cost escalations or just cut down in their oh&p percentage. Eventually the percentage can get so low that it's not worth the business. So vendor A can push for a price increase but the supplier can also push back and threaten to go with vendor B.
The LARGE suppliers probably have equal power to the LARGE supermarkets. Only the small suppliers are constantly fucked when dealing with LARGE supermarkets.
Now i wanna check that out
No! Don't buy from the expensive company, buy from the child slavers and war profiteers instead!