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wepVad asked Richard Dodd: "Retailers, particularly large supermarkets, appear to be profiting from the sale of more robust shopping bags while doing little to encourage reuse. Are proceeds from these sales monitored and are they..." Show more »"Retailers, particularly large supermarkets, appear to be profiting from the sale of more robust shopping bags while doing little to encourage reuse. Are proceeds from these sales monitored and are they actually applied to environmental issues or are the supermarkets getting a free boost to their bottom line?" Show less »
Richard Dodd answers: "None of this is about making money for retailers. Actually they are using awfully lot of money for recycling and for the facilities for recycling; they are offering customers incentives like reward points..." Show more»" None of this is about making money for retailers. Actually they are using awfully lot of money for recycling and for the facilities for recycling; they are offering customers incentives like reward points and so on. They are spending money on days when they are handing out those bags for life that can be used over and over again. Stores are not making money out of this, they are heavily investing on this and it is all costing them. In terms of encouraging reuse, this can not be one sided. "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Business | Email to friends | Dec 05 2007 4:50:05 PM

MarkOne asked Richard Dodd: "It seems that British supermarkets are exploiting 'green' concerns to develop highly effective marketing strategies. Is the anti-plastic-bag stance symptomatic of this trend? "
Richard Dodd answers: "Retailers have always had very powerful incentive to be as efficient as possible in their use of resources whether with talk about heat, light, transport, fuel packaging or minimising waste in stores...." Show more»" Retailers have always had very powerful incentive to be as efficient as possible in their use of resources whether with talk about heat, light, transport, fuel packaging or minimising waste in stores. There has always been financial incentive for them to do so. What has changed is that there is much more public awareness of these issues and people are more interested in knowing what the stores are doing and what they are not doing and how they developing in regard of their environmental record. So in response to the demand of information stores are more public about it and shout more loudly about it and that is why some cynics wrongly say this is just a gimmick. It is not. "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Politics | Email to friends | Dec 05 2007 4:44:47 PM

Londontowner asked Richard Dodd: "Does your organisation have an official line on climate change- do you accept the science or dispute it? And if you accept it, do you accept the need for a radical change to the way large retailers transport,..." Show more »"Does your organisation have an official line on climate change- do you accept the science or dispute it? And if you accept it, do you accept the need for a radical change to the way large retailers transport, package and sell food?" Show less »
Richard Dodd answers: "None of this is becoming as a revelation or new issue to the stores, because they have always had every reason to be as efficient as possible in things like distribution network, how they use packaging..." Show more»" None of this is becoming as a revelation or new issue to the stores, because they have always had every reason to be as efficient as possible in things like distribution network, how they use packaging and bags, because cost has always been powerful financial incentive to get things right. So the idea that stores are pointlessly driving lorries full of products for hundreds of extra miles for no good reason or weighting things with packaging – it is all nonsense, because it has always been in their interest to be as efficient as possible: use as little materials as possible and use as little fuel as possible . What is new is this new awareness that has developed in recent years about the environmental impact means that stores are more focused on it and public awareness is focused on it and therefore retailers are trying to tell public about these issues as much as possible. This is not new for them this is something they have been doing for years. Retailers have always had environmental policy and they have always had strong financial incentive to reduce amount of the materials they use. We are all very focused now on this issue of climate change. Retailers broadly accept the principle that we must reduce emissions and they are working hard on their side to do all that. But the environmental questions are bigger than that. They generally accept and they have always done that it is right that they should be as efficient as they can and that they minimise their impact for environment and that is what they are doing. "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Politics | Email to friends | Dec 05 2007 4:42:46 PM

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