UK: Tesco focusing on British salad vegetables this week
According to the data, Tesco started to offer organic British cucumbers again this week after offering mainly Spanish and some Dutch organic cucumbers for the last 8 weeks. This makes Tesco the only British supermarket with organic British cucumbers on their shelves, as Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Co-op have been respectively offering Belgian, Spanish and Dutch organic cucumbers over the last couple of weeks. The prices for a cucumber is between £1, (Tesco, Morrisons) and £1.30 (M&S).
Red British bell peppers can be found at Tesco, Morrisons and M&S this week. Other retailers like Sainsbury's, Asda, Co-op, Aldi and Lidl are offering Dutch red bell peppers. Lidl and Aldi offer them at the lowest price of 45 pence, while at Co-op they cost as much as 65 pence.
Consumers that are looking for British baby plum tomatoes should head to Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and M&S this week. Spanish baby plum tomatoes can be found at Lidl and Aldi, while Sainsbury's and Co-op have Moroccan baby plums in stock. After offering British baby plum tomatoes for the last 12 weeks, Waitrose started to offer Dutch baby plums this week. Prices are between £2.30/Kg at Co-op and £7.20 at Waitrose and M&S.
This data was prepared by ProduceView. For more information about their UK retail reports:
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