Adapting To A Global Event | Inside Sainsbury's Britain's Oldest Supermarket | Channel 5 

Same where I live. They close down shops, cinemas, bowling alleys etc and build flats. Not realising no one wants to live in a town that’s barren.

@@edwardm1326 Yeah that one Sainsbury's store had been around since before my mum came to the UK which was like 8 years before I was born and I am 24. That store was an integral part of my childhood memory at least the Asda opposite it still there and as for the flats I don't even understand why they are building flats inside a town centre I mean there are already flats near that Sainsbury's since it happens to be near the border of the town and just outside it there are lots of flats

Mine in Dungannon is still here for the moment and I hope it stays,😍 Sainsbury's

More customers for local fishmongers and butchers.

@@samg1879 There isn’t a fishmonger anywhere near to me, that’s the trouble.

Thats all supermarkers now Forced on new contracts, slashed night hours and pay, unpaid lunch breaks, and less pay, and computer based calculation on the speed work needs to be completed by, which doesnt consider any rest or human factors Absolute exploitation these days, people wont last long and thats the plan! they want replacement of workers continuously, so they dont stick around till its pension time etc

That's what they want you to think

Probably made a slight profit but also have to consider with the increased demand for home deliveries they would need to purchase vast amounts of vehicles and more new drivers/more staff for picking and obviously those costs add up and have increased in a very short space of time where as a business increasing normally would be done in stages over a few years not really in a weeks or months at that rate. Can only think of the money spent within my local morrisons store that didnt have home delivery but now has 8 vans which means drivers for the vans working shifts split day and evenings and back up drivers multiply that over the whole country costs add up and add up fast

They wrote off around half a £Billion in debt from the acquisition of Argos and closing stores at the same time, so that gives you an idea of how much profit they actually made.

Because due to the pandemic, the goods raise in price, too. Super high demand of toilet paper for example means chains have to buy for a super high price from the factories and raise the price tag accordingly. Not hard to understand, is it? There is a margin increase, but not even remotely as far as people think.

It was at the beginning of the pandemic early last year.

'We're in the money!'

No you mean the greed of the 1%

Your right mate. There's been a swing back to independent locally owned grocers in Australia. We buy locally and sell more branded lines than the chains