Choice and Enjoyment
Stores are attacked for cutting prices of fatty foods - Home News, UK - The Independent
Supermarkets are undermining healthy eating by bombarding shoppers with cut-price offers for unhealthy food during the credit crunch, according to a National Consumer Council report into the £90bn grocery market.
"The volume of in-house promotions for fatty and sugary foods the supermarkets are all offering is staggering," said Lucy Yates, the report's author. "We expected to see evidence of big improvements since our last investigation, but we've been sadly disappointed.
"Despite their claims, the supermarkets all still have a long way to go to help customers choose and enjoy a healthier diet."
Don't you love the way that nanny insists it is all about helping the consumer "choose and enjoy", not allowing us to choose and enjoy things we like but choosing and enjoying the things that will make us free...