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Unless money's no object, I'd be inclined to patch the old cover and make it last another 5 years, otherwise you may as well go down the super-market for crops. ::)
BTW bought a bag of about 8 big sweet banana's Saturday from our local supermarket for just 99p how do they do that? 8)
In 2002, Wal-Mart asked banana suppliers to bid for its worldwide banana contract. Only a handful of global players were in the running. This forced down the retail price of bananas, but also forced down the price paid to growers below production costs. The price of bananas in Asda fell from £1-08/kg to 81p/kg. For every £1 you spend on bananas in a supermarket, the supermarket gets to keep 40p, the grower receives a mere 10p. At the new prices (81p/kg), a grower in Costa Rica would receive less than the legal minimum for a box of bananas. At these prices the grower in turn would have to pay his workers less than the legal minimum wage. Bananas, like bread, are a known value item (KVI), that is shoppers note the price. Very often these loss leaders, like bread, are examples of predatory pricing, used to force the competition out of business. The supermarkets rip us off elsewhere, by pushing up the prices of other goods.