I have to note that Ocado’s range and quality has greatly decreased since Waitrose divorced them. In particular M&S has no concept of how to produce a mid-value range – they only do expensive and good, or cheaper and crap. The various Ocado-specific brands are a crapshoot – there is no way to know if they’re good or not without buying some, because they vary so much.
It’s not just lack of consumer spending power affecting Ocado. It’s a poor consumer offering from Ocado.
Ocado is losing money because its bad.
I can get a 4hour sainsburys delivery slot for a £ and fill it with aldi price matched ingredients.
Why would I choose Ocado?
It has no identity or USP
We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’
Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot – I don’t want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. (shouting) You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!’
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’
Inflation or price gouging?
Supermarkets actively engage in price fixing while CMA and Trading Standards sit on their hands.
If they could fine one of them with a few billion, then I can assure you the products will become cheaper overnight.
Well, the solution is obvious. Raise interest rates.
When everyone is homeless because they can’t afford mortgages/rent any more, then food costs won’t be such a worry.
Don’t worry, the big corporations will be the last to suffer, they just pass their costs on, it’s the wage slaves and benefit scrounger scum that are the real problem anyway….
Fuck, I hate this place at times… and I’m sick of BoE broken record – interest rise will control inflation! – how long do you have to look at all the evidence to see it’s not working! The problem isn’t luxuries increasing inflation, it’s all going on basics – food/heating etc.
Those who can afford luxuries are the most insulated from the price rises, but the increasing number of people using food banks for example in this country shows their approach – even if by some miracle it does start working 6/12 months down the line – is causing way too much collateral damage to the general populace…
Friendly reminder by the way, last I heard, UK had highest energy prices by a very large percentage, and you don’t hear about the suppliers in other European countries going out of business because they’ve been restricted in what they can charge…
We still won’t pay people what they are worth though. With more people being priced even further out of the economy, we are destined for stagnation and recession; how can you expect the economy to grow when the average person will be cutting back on the goods and services we produce? Record profits will only last so long and soon companies will find they have managed to price themselves out of the market. Then what do they do?
Even today 2 bottles of wine I bought a week or 2 ago from amazon fresh have gone up 20 to 30 %… its ridiculous.. one was £7 (mud house sav B) and the other £8 (Ned sav B).. both today were £10.50.. why?! At what point did they need to jump up. It’s getting insane.
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I have to note that Ocado’s range and quality has greatly decreased since Waitrose divorced them. In particular M&S has no concept of how to produce a mid-value range – they only do expensive and good, or cheaper and crap. The various Ocado-specific brands are a crapshoot – there is no way to know if they’re good or not without buying some, because they vary so much.
It’s not just lack of consumer spending power affecting Ocado. It’s a poor consumer offering from Ocado.
Ocado is losing money because its bad.
I can get a 4hour sainsburys delivery slot for a £ and fill it with aldi price matched ingredients.
Why would I choose Ocado?
It has no identity or USP
We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’
Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot – I don’t want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. (shouting) You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!’
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’
Inflation or price gouging?
Supermarkets actively engage in price fixing while CMA and Trading Standards sit on their hands.
If they could fine one of them with a few billion, then I can assure you the products will become cheaper overnight.
Well, the solution is obvious. Raise interest rates.
When everyone is homeless because they can’t afford mortgages/rent any more, then food costs won’t be such a worry.
Don’t worry, the big corporations will be the last to suffer, they just pass their costs on, it’s the wage slaves and benefit scrounger scum that are the real problem anyway….
Fuck, I hate this place at times… and I’m sick of BoE broken record – interest rise will control inflation! – how long do you have to look at all the evidence to see it’s not working! The problem isn’t luxuries increasing inflation, it’s all going on basics – food/heating etc.
Those who can afford luxuries are the most insulated from the price rises, but the increasing number of people using food banks for example in this country shows their approach – even if by some miracle it does start working 6/12 months down the line – is causing way too much collateral damage to the general populace…
Friendly reminder by the way, last I heard, UK had highest energy prices by a very large percentage, and you don’t hear about the suppliers in other European countries going out of business because they’ve been restricted in what they can charge…
We still won’t pay people what they are worth though. With more people being priced even further out of the economy, we are destined for stagnation and recession; how can you expect the economy to grow when the average person will be cutting back on the goods and services we produce? Record profits will only last so long and soon companies will find they have managed to price themselves out of the market. Then what do they do?
Even today 2 bottles of wine I bought a week or 2 ago from amazon fresh have gone up 20 to 30 %… its ridiculous.. one was £7 (mud house sav B) and the other £8 (Ned sav B).. both today were £10.50.. why?! At what point did they need to jump up. It’s getting insane.