Sainsbury's: Let Them Eat Yoghurts (and Microsoft Downtimes When They Need Proper Food)
Microsoft in the food supply chain is a terrible idea. The economy is in shambles and Sainsbury's, which treats customers like dirt and outsources almost everything to Microsoft [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10], is in the middle of a social control media 'scandal' this week. Yoghurts are a main course now?
Enjoy yoghurt and soda for £3.50.
Sainsbury's annual revenue is about 35 billion pounds. How much of that goes to Microsoft (via TCS)? Do they eat yoghurt as a main course?
It's a form of "shrinkflation"; they lower quality of food (days ago Sainsbury’s "recalled popular food item over salmonella risk") and serve smaller meals for the same price or even a higher price (than before).
This is becoming a national problem here [1, 2] and elsewhere (earlier today in Daily Links we included "Increasing number of people in Lithuania struggle to pay for food"). It's a global problem and in the United States it has become the target of a new investigation (price-fixing by conglomerates), as per this story from Daily Links that says: "A new generation of trustbusters is trying to use anti-monopoly laws to roll back concentrations of economic power." This targets "big grocers".
Does Microsoft/Windows TCO* also account for malnutrition? A week ago Sainsbury's said it would axe 1,500 jobs as part of "£1billion saving plan" (they shut down stores); it could drop Microsoft instead of rendering many British families without - or short of - income.
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* Because yes, Greggs also outsourced this to Microsoft [1, 2]. It has become way too easy to see the pattern. No food for you! Microsoft issue!