Showing posts with label National Consumer Council. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Consumer Council. Show all posts

Monday, 1 September 2008

"Supermarkets push fatty foods"

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!