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Not saying you’re lying by the way Ponky, more pointing to the fact that people just look for excuses to justify their ineptitude in business. Working off margins that small is suicidal if you’re a retailer.

 

don’t think it was just the tariff, can’t remember the exact details but it was a combo of extra checks and balances out in place (by the host county ) to export to the uk , which all added up to make it unviable.

wasn’t cut flowers either, it was supply to the garden industry, which they said had been thriving overall due to people being stuck at home.

 

Should sell tuna

Bare doe for a big one.


Saw it on a fsih show

 

Yeah I agree you need to have a business model that can accommodate these sorts of changes. I guess sometimes, if you’ve got other markets that can fill the gap though, then for some, it’s simpler to just **** off the hassle and concentrate your efforts elsewhere.

 

Brexit is costing a fortune to UK business mate - a particularly problematic area is online sales.

Pre Brexit a customer say in Portugal orders a shirt on-line from our website and pays. Gets his shirt a couple of days later - happy customer.

Post Brexit - same item, same price. But we are no longer in the EU so there is duty to pay when the shirt enters the EU. 2 choices... either have the customer pay the duty when he receives the package .... great customers experience that... or we pay it. Bang goes our margin as duty (unlike VAT) is an absolute cost.

Simple example but imagine that many times over.

 

Fair enough, **** her then, nobody will give a **** about gardens when the pubs open so she was a hiding to nothing either way.

 

The whole admin side is becoming crippling ... particularly in regard to origin of goods.

 

Lol. It was a bloke, but yeah we’re a nation of pissheads at heart rather than gardeners.

 

If you’re doing enough volume on the continent then I don’t see the value in a U.K. distribution silo, are your goods manufactured in the U.K.?

Have we not all experienced this before by the way? Everybody has been to Zara. T shirt £25.99 - same T shirt €27.50... written on the same label.

 

I think in the case I’d mentioned, each order to the UK needed an extra layer of checks and balances before it could be exported. And then again at the border when it came in.

The added costs just meant that the supplier has shifted their interests to other EU based markets.

 

I thought there was a waiver on border checks for FMCG until July?

 

Alright ill let you off then

 

Yeah think they were probs just anticipating that and decided to **** it off before it became a problem for them.

 

Or wait for The Netherlands to figure it out for them.

 

I think one of issues was the end of the EU plant passport for the UK, it’s apparently been replaced with a Phytosanitary certificate, which is issued by the health authority in the originating country and that costs the supplier extra to export.

But yeah, the Dutch export loads of plants to us, so they’ll find a way to figure it out. Probs comes down to economy of scales, the example I gave was a small(ish) business and I think the programme was concentrating on how small business has been affected both for import to the EU and from EU businesses exporting to the UK

 

I’m steering clear.

 

pussy

 

Supermarkets work off tiny margins. Which is one reason why independent retailers can’t compete.

 

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