Grocery trading

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Grocery trading

An underground cottage industry exposed by the internet in which "traders" or trading companies buy and sell blue chip grocery items such as frosted flakes and pillsbury cake mix amongst the nation's largest supermarket chains and other grocers based on price disprepencies from chain to chain.

This industry has operated "underground" for the entire forty years (app 1965) it has existed. the advent of the internet allows infinite more efficient information for all members of the grocery community and promises to transform the industry as it will so many "neo transparent" industries.

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