On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:10:32 +0000, snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk (SteveH) is alleged to have written:
Having known people who worked for a major manufacturer of ready meals and other convenience foods, I can vouch for that. Products intended for M&S, the "big 4", and others (branded, e.g. Crosse & Blackwell), are often made on the same line, differentiated only by the packaging they go into.
It doesn't matter whether it's happened to you or not. The fact remains that a single supplier will make for more than one supermarket private label.
Some will make for several. Same factory, same production lines or batch cooking, same staff. Only the spec (recipe, ingredients, packaging) may differ.
Are you really so ignorant?
Oh yes.
I must say, I can't remember the last time that The Doctor or I ate a supermarket ready meal. But then, we both like to cook, and we recognise the economy of preparing it yourself.
He will care if it goes bust and isn't there and he can't buy his provisions.
That's like Bush saying that on his criteria, the US is winning the war in Iraq.
And you don't want the publicity?
No, it's not. You say you considered it. You obviously did nothing of the sort, since no such losses existed.
So, in fact, you were telling a lie, weren't you?
Ah, the great baked bean fraud. :)
They aren't Californian then? ime, their fruit tastes like wood pulp. ymmv, of course, but I really don't care for mass market US produce.
From another supermarket, possibly not. The staff at Tesco once treated me rahter oddly when I asked if they sold any sandwiches without mayonnaise. If I have to buy sandwiches I tend to go to one of the shops where they make them fresh. That way I get to choose what goes into them and to have them made without butter or slime.
Bother you. I can't remember. Slightly early for Algol, or am I lost in the mists again...!
I'm going to set myself up in business selling spades which are optimised for digging very deep holes.
You seem to be a likely customer :-)
He glories in it. If he didn't, he'd be far more careful about how he posts.
*snort*
or that, according to his own criteria, Sir Tony is a genius.
IMHO; the 'quickness' in scanning item starts at the design stage with their graphics department. I've noticed that ALDI's own-product artwork incorporate the bar-codes as a continuous band around four sides of the packet and the checkout operator gets a beep almost every time. while in other stores checkout operators seem to need to 'hunt the bar-code' when scanning items.
A second here; a second there; pretty soon you're talking man-hours - and reducing the 'cost of Sales' (as he accountants say.
.nostalgia ........................................................... and sugar measured into paper cones, and half a pound of broken biscuits from the tin box in front of the counter, and bacon off the slicer, ... , and butter off the slab patted between paddles , milk ladled into the jug from the churn; coal delivered by horse-drawn waggons.... I wonder why the idea of pre-packs came about? Was it to reduce wastage, reduce manpower (cost) of retailing; .... 'loose 'veggies (SIC) indeed!
You too will be able to make a fortune on Ebay from Aldi's face cream.
That's the funniest thing I've heard all day! Thank you for being so entertaining :-)
And the pleasure, hm?
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