The BBC have trotted out the nonsense peddled by bansturbators The National Consumer Council (of course).
Chucklesome is this bit:
The NCC went into Asda, Co-op, Marks and Spencer, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Somerfield, Tesco and Waitrose stores in Sheffield and assessed how much they were doing to help their customers eat healthily. It rated each on promotions, the salt content of own-brand foods, nutrition labelling, the prevalence of sweets at check-outs and the healthy eating information and advice available... Tesco, despite having the biggest share of the market, was ranked joint fifth place...
Why would having a large market share mean that Tesco is more likely to do well here? Maybe that's why they have such a large market share, because they 'give customers what they want'. Unlike Sainsbury's, which came top in the survey and which has been losing market share for years.
Anyway, getting back to The National Consumer Council, they wouldn't happen to be a gummint funded quango, would they, by any chance? Click the link to find out!
Monday 1 September 2008
"Supermarkets push fatty foods"
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As ever, Daily Mash are on the ball.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1214&Itemid=59
"The other 40% is contractual income secured on the back of our excellent reputation for being an efficient, well run organisation that achieves real results for consumers and its innovative thinking and contribution to the debates that really matter."
So if they are that good then let them generate 100% of their income and leave us alone.
I love that the department funding them is the "Dept for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform". This does nothing to improve business success, is deliberately against market enterprise & the only sort of "reform" that could possibly emerge is an increase in the thicket of regulations.
Sir Humphrey would approve.
"This means that we receive some funding from the Government, (in our case the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform) but we are completely independent of government, they cannot tell us what to do or not to do."
Do people really believe this crap?
What if one day, the NCC got a new director, and he decided to fire most of the staff and spend the money on beer and strippers? Does anyone seriously think that the government wouldn't in some way intervene? Of course they would. A minister would give him a call, and he'd either do as he was told, or the government would pass an amendment to the act severing their funding.
TA, while doing the research for this government-funded report all-round subsidy-junkies KPMG actually did spend it all on beer and strippers.
MW,
And they just wasted the rest!
Knowing KPMG, they spent it on sports cars.
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