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For pretty much everyone on the planet. this inflation is the reason central banks are ramping up their interest rates. workers are demanding higher wages and shops, they are the new battleground between retailers and their suppliers. the boss of the biggest retailer right here in the uk, it's tesco, told the bbc about how his company negotiates with suppliers about price. i think you need to talk to the individual suppliers to, if you think that their price increases are hard to justify. we work very hard at tesco to analyse the make—up of our food products. an awful lot of our own label is...

Have the same access to the profit structures of our branded suppliers, but we do challenge them as hard as we possibly can. ok, so let's start with the raw ingredients. take wheat, for example. before the pandemic, about four years ago, a bushel of wheat was trading on the market at $4.70. that spiked when russia invaded ukraine one year ago. the same amount of wheat went up to almost 13 bucks a bushel. but at the end of march this year, it was sitting at around $7, much less than the peak, but still 47% higher than before the pandemic. it's a similar story with cooking oil. before the pandem...

What the ingredients are costing our suppliers and we have an agreed kind of profit margin for them on top of their raw material costs and their operating costs. so we know exactly what's going on there. and, you know, we don't have the same access to the profit structures of our branded suppliers, but we do challenge them as hard as we possibly can. ok, so let's start with the raw ingredients. take wheat, for example. before the pandemic, about four years ago, a bushel of wheat was trading on the market at $4.70. that spiked when russia invaded ukraine one year ago. the same amount of wheat w...

Of their raw material costs and their operating costs. so we know exactly what's going on there. and, you know, we don't have the same access to the profit structures of our branded suppliers, but we do challenge them as hard as we possibly can. ok, so let's start with the raw ingredients. take wheat, for example. before the pandemic, about four years ago, a bushel of wheat was trading on the market at $4.70. that spiked when russia invaded ukraine one year ago. the same amount of wheat went up to almost 13 bucks a bushel. but at the end of march this year, it was sitting at around $7, much le...