SuperValu having a laugh!

Janerose

Was interested to see Super Valu's TV ad telling us all to buy Irish....went in there today to buy Avonmore soup - none on the shelves and the guy in the store suggested I take Cully and Sully - American owned and made in the UK - priceless! - maybe tell their advertising department!!

Deub

Euh... I m not getting it. It is nice from the staff to propose you alternative. It can happen they run out. Maybe the advertising is working too well :-)

HeidiHeidi

Avonmore owned by Glanbia which is an international corporation, so hardly an Irish cottage industry!

Is Cully & Sully really made in the UK? I don't think ownership matters any more, nothing much stays Irish if it grows to any decent size, but I thought their production was still here?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Avonmore owned by Glanbia which is an international corporation, so hardly an Irish cottage industry!

Is Cully & Sully really made in the UK? I don't think ownership matters any more, nothing much stays Irish if it grows to any decent size, but I thought their production was still here?

Of course Glanbia is Irish. It may be multi national but it is head quartered and incorporated in Ireland. Cully & Scully is now US owned. Production is here but profits go abroad.
A company doesn't have to be a cottage industry to still be Irish with profits and taxes accruing to Ireland.

gctest50

you just cant tell anymore really

double irish n a dutch sambo to go please :

ben.schlomo

Janerose wrote: »

Was interested to see Super Valu's TV ad telling us all to buy Irish....went in there today to buy Avonmore soup - none on the shelves and the guy in the store suggested I take Cully and Sully - American owned and made in the UK - priceless! - maybe tell their advertising department!!

It was sold out, whats the issue, its not as if they dont have lots of Irish products in the store, did the assistant know you specifically wanted to buy Irish, maybe they dont have any Irish alternative, if they did could you not use your eyes and buy it?

Five Lamps

Anaya Echoing Stepbrother wrote: »

Cully & Scully is now US owned. Production is here but profits go abroad.
A company doesn't have to be a cottage industry to still be Irish with profits and taxes accruing to Ireland.

It wouldn't surprise me if the reverse has happened and that US company is now officially Irish! Seems to be what a lot of US companies do - buy a foreign company and suddenly you are Canadian/Irish/British for tax purposes.

BuffyBot

Being helpful. Whatever next

delahuntv

I'd say the store would be very boring if it only stocked Irish made goods. Adverts certainly don't say that they only sell Irish goods, but they do support a lot of small Irish producers especially at local level.

Did you tell the staff member that you were looking for an Irish made soup or just soup. Maybe you knew that Cully and Sully were not Irish made and just wanted to show off your superior knowledge to a shop worker?


What else is not Irish

Charleville cheese (made in their plant in UK)
Jacob biscuits including fig rolls & mikado!!
Fruitfield Jams
Lyons Tea
HB Icecream
Boyne Valley Honey
Erin Soup

Likewise some brands that seem to be from elsewhere ARE made here

Jelly Bean Factory
Goodfellas Pizza
Big Als
Robert roberts
KP Rancheros & Skips
All Cadbury flake / timeouts / twirls sold worldwide.

Janerose

Yes - Super Valu guy was just being helpful - it was his boss that had decided not to stock the Irish product (it wasnt just out of stock!) and I just thought that was a bit rich given their advertising - but as you say use my eyes (and my feet) and if I walk to Dunnes I'll get it there.

marcus2000

I'm surprised he didn't recommend the SuperValu own range soups. I would. Butternut Squash is deelish.......... and although it doesn't seem to be advertised, they have been 2 for 3 eur for the past month

Id guess the SuperValu range are Irish but they are packaged in a Cully/Sully style tub so who knows!!!

__

According to the Herald, Supervalu soup is made in Tipperary!!

Sunny Dayz

Supervalu not beings stocked with something you went in to get?!


That's not much of a shocker to me - my local Supervalu is poorly stocked and usually only when you really need it! Or when something is in the offers leaflet, you suddenly cannot find it in the store.

SaKuRa

you can't believe anyone these days, Supervalu tell you that they are buying Irish and instead delist an Irish brand to support a an English made brand?

gallag

The Irish are amazingly hypocritical when it comes to "buy Irish" , net exporters that yous are.

D3PO

OP congratulations on registering for boards to post this non issue.

Let me guess if the guy in the shop didnt propose an alternative you would have ranted that their staff are unhelpful.

Tell ya what next time why not go to your local farmers market pick you the freshly grown irish ingrediants and make your own soup. Youd have it done in the time it took you to register and post this thread.....

rubadub

Janerose wrote: »

Was interested to see Super Valu's TV ad telling us all to buy Irish.

delahuntv wrote: »

Adverts certainly don't say that they only sell Irish goods, but they do support a lot of small Irish producers especially at local level.

+1, I can't recall seeing these ads telling us to buy Irish, I thought the recent ads were more about the company being Irish owned, and not sending the shops profits abroad or something along those lines.

Cabaal

Selection of recent supervalue adverts on http://www.redragefilms.com/

They go on about stocking Irish foods, having quality foods, tasty foods, value for money, special offers but nothing specifically on the lines of what the OP has said.

Oh and also they say buy local, but thats nothing the same as buy Irish

ben.schlomo

Anything further to add OP or have you just posted and run?

BuffyBot

Janerose wrote: »

Yes - Super Valu guy was just being helpful - it was his boss that had decided not to stock the Irish product (it wasnt just out of stock!) and I just thought that was a bit rich given their advertising - but as you say use my eyes (and my feet) and if I walk to Dunnes I'll get it there.

I don't recall them saying they stock every Irish made product, ever. They're a business not a showcase.

Do you genuinely expect supermarket staff to know that Cully & Sully is now a US based brand?

Sounds like they were being as helpful as could be.

Any supervalu I've been in stocks the Avonmore soups. Surprised your one doesn't.

GerardKeating

Janerose wrote: »

Yes - Super Valu guy was just being helpful - it was his boss that had decided not to stock the Irish product (it wasnt just out of stock!) and I just thought that was a bit rich given their advertising - but as you say use my eyes (and my feet) and if I walk to Dunnes I'll get it there.

How could you tell the difference between "out of stock" and "cannot be bothered to stock" ??

Plus SuperValu is a franchise chain, so most of the stores are not actually owned by SuperValu, plus they can have "regional" promotions, for which not all stores are involved.

BFG30000

Avonmore is produced in Ireland and the profits go stay in Ireland. Cully and Sully is produced in Britain and the profits made here go back there. I buy Irish because I believe that you should always look to do so before buying otherwise - the same goes for our shops as well IMO. I live close to a SuperValu who have never stocked it and a Centra who are the exact same

Beano

BFG30000 wrote: »

Avonmore is produced in Ireland and the profits go stay in Ireland. Cully and Sully is produced in Britain and the profits made here go back there. I buy Irish because I believe that you should always look to do so before buying otherwise - the same goes for our shops as well IMO. I live close to a SuperValu who have never stocked it and a Centra who are the exact same

are Cully and Sully not made in Cork still so they are still irish made?

caolfx

Fail.

OP, you sound like the type of person who'll moan about anything.

Next.

dudara

Posters - your behaviour towards the OP has been quite rude. Argue the post, not the poster.

Any further smart comments will result in immediate bans.

dudara

P_1

I'd imagine that Supervalu couldn't give a continental shoite about were the products you spend your money on come from so long as its in a Supervalu where you're spending that money.

Decent, if somewhat non original, concept for an ad campaign all the same. Let's all tug at those patriotic heartstrings...

rubadub

P_1 wrote: »

Decent, if somewhat non original, concept for an ad campaign all the same.

If such an ad campaign is even going on.

I saw the ad I previously mentioned on TV again, it was all about how shopping in supervalu was allegedly putting money back into the local economy, presumably trying to infer shopping in tesco etc will not. It features footballers or maybe hurlers. I did not hear the ad people telling to buy irish products.

Lisa Parker

Feeling under the weather last week and I asked the hubby to pick me up some avonmore tomato & basil soup in our local supervalu. He returned and tells me that the guy on the floor told him they are not stocking it anymore bit didn't offer any explanation why!! We only have supervalu where I live and avon soup is just the best when your not feeling 100%. Our kids love it too.
I havent bought Sully & cully since i noticed they removed Irish butter, cream etc from the packs which I deemed compelling enough evidence that their soups/company is no longer Irish - a quick internet search confirmed this - Sold to a US company & manufactured in the UK
has anyone heard the recent radio adverts about how much we spend on imported produce? think its around 1.6billion?

L1011

Lisa Parker wrote: »

Feeling under the weather last week and I asked the hubby to pick me up some avonmore tomato & basil soup in our local supervalu. He returned and tells me that the guy on the floor told him they are not stocking it anymore bit didn't offer any explanation why!! We only have supervalu where I live and avon soup is just the best when your not feeling 100%. Our kids love it too.
I havent bought Sully & cully since i noticed they removed Irish butter, cream etc from the packs which I deemed compelling enough evidence that their soups/company is no longer Irish - a quick internet search confirmed this - Sold to a US company & manufactured in the UK
has anyone heard the recent radio adverts about how much we spend on imported produce? think its around 1.6billion?

You're not being forced to buy Cully & Sully. What a shop stocks is up to them.

vandriver

Awful lot of new posters singing the praises of Avonmore soup over Cully and Sully.Smells of shill to me.

dudara

vandriver wrote: »

Awful lot of new posters singing the praises of Avonmore soup over Cully and Sully.Smells of shill to me.

If you have a suspicion, please use the Report Post function. Do not clog up the thread with off topic comments.

dudara

Janerose

Lots of replies anyways, even if some not very friendly!.... Doing my shopping this morning in SV again & I tried to buy Kelkin Muesli.... None there.... asked the lady in the shop and she said that they weren’t stocking it anymore but that I could buy Alpen. So Kelkin made in Ireland, Alpen made in Britain. Is this a new policy by SuperValu?...

ibarelycare

Janerose wrote: »

Lots of replies anyways, even if some not very friendly!.... Doing my shopping this morning in SV again & I tried to buy Kelkin Muesli.... None there.... asked the lady in the shop and she said that they weren’t stocking it anymore but that I could buy Alpen. So Kelkin made in Ireland, Alpen made in Britain. Is this a new policy by SuperValu?...

Why don't you get onto their head office?

Janerose

Janerose wrote: »

Lots of replies anyways, even if some not very friendly!.... Doing my shopping this morning in SV again & I tried to buy Kelkin Muesli.... None there.... asked the lady in the shop and she said that they weren’t stocking it anymore but that I could buy Alpen. So Kelkin made in Ireland, Alpen made in Britain. Is this a new policy by SuperValu?...

I've just gone onto their online store, and they have both avonmore soup, and kelkin muesli available. Sounds like it's just your local store, so not a supervalu policy.

edit: I also notice they have items which are Irish, clearly marked as such which is handy

witchgirl26

It could be a simple fact that it wasn't selling well enough in your local SuperValu to warrant it being stocked full time or else they've had problems getting it to where you are. I know the former happened in relation to something I really like that a different supermarket used to stock. When I enquired from management (not just a shop floor person who may not know the ins & outs), I was told that demand was too low to justify keeping it in the shop. If they thought there was sufficient demand, they would return to stocking the product.
While a shop may try to support buying Irish, they are a business and have to operate as such.

rubadub

Janerose wrote: »

Lots of replies anyways, even if some not very friendly!

have you seen this alleged advert again? nobody else seems to have seen it and it was core to your complaint/issue.

Cabaal

Janerose wrote: »

Lots of replies anyways, even if some not very friendly!.... Doing my shopping this morning in SV again & I tried to buy Kelkin Muesli.... None there.... asked the lady in the shop and she said that they weren’t stocking it anymore but that I could buy Alpen. So Kelkin made in Ireland, Alpen made in Britain. Is this a new policy by SuperValu?...

Lots of reply, but yet the advert you've described simply does not exist, perhaos its in your imagination?

Its very possible that the Kelkin Muesli wasn't a big seller, or there may be supply issues.

Do you expect shops to still stock items if they don't sell well?

Rather then ranting here why not contact Supervalue with your query? Head office might be a good place to start.,

L1011

Janerose wrote: »

Is this a new policy by SuperValu?...

No, no its not.

Jayop

BTW on the soup thing, they're own brand (probably Irish??) is the best one they sell.

the groutch

Even if such an ad exists, that doesn't automatically mean that all staff have been instructed to try push the Irish products they do have in store onto customers.

Maybe (s)he has advised those products because (s)he thinks their good from having tried them personally, or has seen them sell a lot and assumes they're the best of what is available.

SpaceTime

Cully and Sully is an Irish brand.

They're based in Cork and are a pretty successful small Irish food company. They were recently acquired by a U.S. Company.

http://www.cullyandsully.com

http://www.irishexaminer.com/business/cully-sully-reserves-boosted-by-2m-after-sale-to-us-foods-group-254413.html

That's just the nature of business. I'm not sure how Supervalu staff are supposed to keep track of Irish companys ownership.

Sure eircom was technically a Singapore semi-state until a few years ago!

former legend

Janerose wrote: »

Lots of replies anyways, even if some not very friendly!.... Doing my shopping this morning in SV again & I tried to buy Kelkin Muesli.... None there.... asked the lady in the shop and she said that they weren’t stocking it anymore but that I could buy Alpen. So Kelkin made in Ireland, Alpen made in Britain. Is this a new policy by SuperValu?...

Just out of interest, did they have Avonmore soup back in stock?