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Question by:
Sally Hamwee
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Meeting date:
21 March 2007
You just talked about having rows with the supermarkets. Do you envisage having attempted constructive discussions with the supermarkets about encouraging more local production? I can remember once being in Marks & Spencer's and hearing a manager saying, `I do not know why these strawberries are not going' and I had been listening - because it is leafy Richmond and they are aware of these things - I had been listening to shoppers saying, `I cannot buy those, they have just been flown in from the US, where are the English ones?' It is something about encouraging supermarkets to pick...