Four Slices Of Ham, A Toilet Roll And Can You Look At This Rash...
Supermarkets and other private firms are being invited to bid to run GP surgeries as part of a drive to improve access to care in deprived areas.
However...
I wouldn't want to be stood in the middle of Tesco's discussing my many and various embarrassing complaints. Can you imagine it? Take your trousers off, oh just put them on top of the beans.
Surely the bit that is difficult to find in these situations is the doctor and not the surgery. My old GP practised out of a portacabin for ten years until he had a surgery built.
Sorry if this isn't up to the usual standard but I am suffering from the dreaded man flu; just nipping to Asda.
Comments...
Sorry but the screens don't arrive until next week.
subscribe to these commentsAnd small shops can still do that, provided there are people prepared to pay the premium. It's the old story of market forces; people in this country are quite happy to eat crappy meat hacked off with a chainsaw by a spotty adolescent provided it's cheap.
In France, where people take food more seriously, the specialist baker, butcher, etc. still do business alongside Super U because the French are prepared to pay for quality.
In France, where people take food more seriously, the specialist baker, butcher, etc. still do business alongside Super U because the French are prepared to pay for quality.
garethwi (22-03-2007 13:14:31)
Responding to about five comments back (sorry, I have to work sometimes), small shops don't just have to be about selling large name brands. That's a comment from someone totally indoctrinated by the large supermarkets.
Smaller shops should be about true variety. Going to a baker to get his own fresh made bread, or a butcher to buy premium cuts of meat, not the piece of crap chosen for its price/performance ratio.
Smaller shops should be about true variety. Going to a baker to get his own fresh made bread, or a butcher to buy premium cuts of meat, not the piece of crap chosen for its price/performance ratio.
Realist (22-03-2007 06:48:14)
Also if Tesco, Asda, and Sainsburys all decide to sell a tin of beans for £5 it only needs Morrisons to sell them at £4.99 to corner the bean market. The others will respond and off it all goes again.
Thatcher (22-03-2007 06:42:23)
"Once supermarkets have successfully crushed all small enterprise then they will fix prices high between themselves." ...which establishes the perfect conditions for new small scale local businesses to start up.
Clarkson (22-03-2007 06:40:03)
You can buy a Suzuki Alto for £5k brand new. 5 doors, 5 gears, 4 wheels, 4 seats; what more do you need in a starter car?
Bob The Builder (22-03-2007 06:37:33)
I can't see how your argument works... New build properties tend to be cheaper than established ones and anyway, there aren't that many of them as a percentage of available housing stock.
Grumpy Old Man (22-03-2007 01:28:42)
There are plusses and minuses all the way with this - and also other areas in which we have 'progressed'.
For example, the main reason house prices rise more than anything else is that builders are the greedyest bastards on the planet. They are followed very closely by the car manufacturer/dealer cartels.
You only have to look at the price of your starter home and starter car as a percentage of average income to see that the rise is pure greed.
Once supermarkets have successfully crushed all small enterprise then they will fix prices high between themselves.
Betcha.
For example, the main reason house prices rise more than anything else is that builders are the greedyest bastards on the planet. They are followed very closely by the car manufacturer/dealer cartels.
You only have to look at the price of your starter home and starter car as a percentage of average income to see that the rise is pure greed.
Once supermarkets have successfully crushed all small enterprise then they will fix prices high between themselves.
Betcha.
revrobuk (21-03-2007 23:00:29)
But isn't that true of the local shops? They'll be selling Heinz beans, Andrex bog roll, HP sauce, etc., just at 10-15% more.
garethwi (21-03-2007 22:47:37)
They all sell about 90% the same stuff, it's only a few own brand products that set them apart (and the fact that one is orange, one blue, and the other green).
revrobuk (21-03-2007 21:31:11)
Pish and, indeed, tosh. Sainsburys has nice stuff, Asda has cheap stuff, and Tesco falls somewhere in the middle.
revrobuk (22-03-2007 13:42:59)