Costa Rica: A Budgens owner blasts banana war

The owner of two London Budgens supermarkets, Andrew Thornton, hopes to restore banana prices, and has started a campaign - Play Fair, Trade Fair. All profits from banana sales wil be donated to Banana Link which supports workers in Costa Rica. You can read more about this on Andrew Thornton, Budgens website,
where he says "Have you noticed that the price of Bananas seems very low these days? Well there is a good reason for this and that’s because there is a price war going on, led by the Wal*Mart subsidiary Asda.

With UK banana prices now at 1/3 of the real price they were 7 years ago, there is only one loser in all this and that is banana farmers and workers in the developing world. We at Thornton’s Budgens are not going to play in this wreckless ‘game’ and for the month of November will be donating all our banana profits to a plantation workers organisation in Costa Rica.

Our appeal to you – if you care about the plight of banana workers in the developing world, don’t buy cheap bananas in the Supermarkets, buy them elsewhere! "


Source: internationalsupermarketnews.com

Publication date: 11/4/2009

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