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I suspect overcharge is very much the correct word here. A significantly large percentage of the Scottish population actually lives within a 90 minute isochrone of each other meaning that it shouldn't be that difficult to service them. What I suspect they're doing is top slicing a margin based on something like 2% of the population. Even places like the Ayrshire coast or Dumfries and Galloway or no less peripheral than Devon

There is another issue of course concerning Scottish operational overheads, certainly labour, being less expensive. OK I realise there's a limit to how much Scottish farming can produce in the tundra, but it's constantly telling us that it has an agricultural industry (sheep I suspect).

The other thing that is worth trying as an experiement next time you're shopping is to pick up 10 'fresh' produce items and look for the country of destination on them. You'd get a shock. About half of it will have come in from thousands of miles away. The idea that importing lamb from New Zealand becomes prohibitively expensive because of the final 200 miles it has to complete to get to Ullapool doesn't seem right

It would be interesting to know how many haulage operators are English based travelling up the M6 / A1 to deliver in the first place?

I note that for every supermarket who predicted that there would be inflation there was another who were less certain

<blockquote data-quote="Warbler" data-source="post: 2469926" data-attributes="member: 65228">I suspect overcharge is very much the correct word here. A significantly large percentage of the Scottish population actually lives within a 90 minute isochrone of each other meaning that it shouldn&#039;t be that difficult to service them. What I suspect they&#039;re doing is top slicing a margin based on something like 2% of the population. Even places like the Ayrshire coast or Dumfries and Galloway or no less peripheral than DevonThere is another issue of course concerning Scottish operational overheads, certainly labour, being less expensive. OK I realise there&#039;s a limit to how much Scottish farming can produce in the tundra, but it&#039;s constantly telling us that it has an agricultural industry (sheep I suspect). The other thing that is worth trying as an experiement next time you&#039;re shopping is to pick up 10 &#039;fresh&#039; produce items and look for the country of destination on them. You&#039;d get a shock. About half of it will have come in from thousands of miles away. The idea that importing lamb from New Zealand becomes prohibitively expensive because of the final 200 miles it has to complete to get to Ullapool doesn&#039;t seem rightIt would be interesting to know how many haulage operators are English based travelling up the M6 / A1 to deliver in the first place?I note that for every supermarket who predicted that there would be inflation there was another who were less certain</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Warbler, post: 2469926, member: 65228"] I suspect overcharge is very much the correct word here. A significantly large percentage of the Scottish population actually lives within a 90 minute isochrone of each other meaning that it shouldn't be that difficult to service them. What I suspect they're doing is top slicing a margin based on something like 2% of the population. Even places like the Ayrshire coast or Dumfries and Galloway or no less peripheral than Devon There is another issue of course concerning Scottish operational overheads, certainly labour, being less expensive. OK I realise there's a limit to how much Scottish farming can produce in the tundra, but it's constantly telling us that it has an agricultural industry (sheep I suspect). The other thing that is worth trying as an experiement next time you're shopping is to pick up 10 'fresh' produce items and look for the country of destination on them. You'd get a shock. About half of it will have come in from thousands of miles away. The idea that importing lamb from New Zealand becomes prohibitively expensive because of the final 200 miles it has to complete to get to Ullapool doesn't seem right It would be interesting to know how many haulage operators are English based travelling up the M6 / A1 to deliver in the first place? I note that for every supermarket who predicted that there would be inflation there was another who were less certain [/QUOTE]

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