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Pot Noodle In Peril

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Unilever the people who make Pot Noodle's and Marmite are having a disagreement with Tesco over pricing as a result of the Brexit malarkey and some items are disappearing from the supermarket shelves.
Now Marmite I couldn't care less about bloody awful stuff lol , but pot noodles are a regular in my food bag.
Beginning to think it's time I invested in a dehydrator.

More at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37637954
 
It's not just Tesco, they're the only supermarket to have taken any action. Most supermarkets carry Unilever products. Tescos point of view is they shouldn't be paying more for things produced in the UK, so have called their bluff. Tesco CEO Dave Lewis used to work for Unilever so he may be in a good position to know their strategies.

Be interesting to see if the other supermarkets follow suit, or put the squeeze on Tesco.
 
On a low salt kick a while back (and having tholed the nagging by Son1 about the evils of lo-salt) I bought vegemite.
It's okay as 'stock' but it's not marmite :sigh: it's awful on my oatcakes :yuck:

M
 
Forget the dried worms in sauce and that disgusting black goo people call food, think of the ben and jerrys ice cream! :eek:

Tonyuk
 
I don't know how anybody can eat that stuff; it's so sickly sweet…..and then they add more stuff in on it too.
Marmite though :D s'good food :cool:

M
 
I dont like it, too salty.

I am rather fond of sainsburys reduced salt yeast extract.

(when I am jaded on Bovril, which I live upon.)
 
Watch Unilever crash in coming months, a possible "Ratner moment". Don't care for any of the extract sticky things, my main thought about them is "Why".

Incidentally have rediscovered oatcakes but these don't have the additives of my earlier trials. Very good with cheese. May well use them as trail food.
 
boatman said:
Watch Unilever crash in coming months, a possible "Ratner moment". Don't care for any of the extract sticky things, my main thought about them is "Why".

Incidentally have rediscovered oatcakes but these don't have the additives of my earlier trials. Very good with cheese. May well use them as trail food.
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I suspect it'll have more of an impact on Tesco than Unilever.

If Tesco don't stock Unilever products, people will go to hops that do stock them rather than buy a different product at Tesco. Once they have tried a different shop, they may not return. The cost to Tesco of losing a regular shopper is massive long term.
 
Toddy said:
Bovril's from beef, Marmite's from yeast.
One's definitely not vegetarian friendly while the other is :)

M
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Sort of. Yeast are in the fungus kingdom, so while they're not animals (meat) technically they really aren't plants (vegetable) either.
 
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