There's a bit of a story today about Tesco and one of it's suppliers Unilever. It appears that Unilever want to increase it's wholesale prices to reflect the increase in it's cost due to the pound being devalued (if I understand it correctly). Tesco has told them they will not pay any increase, so Uniover have obviously stopped supplying them. This has led to quite a large number of products not being available in Tescos, and (typically) the press have focused on one of Unilever's big brands - Marmite as a way of grabbing readers attention.
I'm not sure how many brands Unilever have, only that it is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) producer of home products so to use a product which is only bought by half of the population is a bit odd. Marmite is a marmite type of product i.e. you either like it or you don't. Anyway, I'm sure they will arrive at some sort of agreement, and now I know why I couldn't purchase a few of my favourite items when I used the Tesco online service last night.
Day 13 of Runtober, and I'm still going strong. Early start today for my 4 miles to avoid the expected rain, although it would have been OK at lunchtime as it turns out.
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