On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:30:24 +0000, Matt
wrote:

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:14:23 +0000, Andy Hall
wrote:

Can you imagine all the shops getting together and
refusing to sell apples because the price is too low? Yet this is, in
effect what union negotiation seeks to achieve.
The right approach would be to offer a better product or to sell a
different product or sell it elsewhere.

Turning this around slightly, can you imagine a number of supermarkets
driving the purchase price of an apple so low that UK producers are
ripping up established orchards leaving the market open to cheap
imports of subsidised pap from France?

No need to imagine. The supermarkets are doing this over and over
again with hundreds of products both in this country and all over the
world.

Absolutely.

Ask yourself why. The situation is a direct result of sellers of
goods and services allowing themselves to be price driven and not
educating their customers to buy on value.


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..andy