tax avoidance and company ethics.

[emordnilap]

I don;'t think you understand me. The suppliers don't HAVE to supply them. The supermarkets can't force you do anything, they don't have guns after all (yet). Yes, you might go out of business - but that's a risk of going into business in the first place and nobody said it was going to be nice in the world of commerce. Anyway, most of these producers you're talking about are multinationals too...

There's always a choice - it's not the people in charge of the producers who normally pay the price, it's the grunts who get laid off or lower pay.

I can't see where you are coming from, cubes. You seem to have a big grudge against small businesses.

I don't, but the talk here almost holds up small businesses as angels who can do no wrong when we all know this is far far far from the truth. There are many shitty small businesspeople who think of nothing except their own enrichment - many doing stuff so obviously bad even (some) multinationals would blush. We're just talking about tax avoidance/evasion here but h&s, working conditions and pay etc too.

It's all relative.