Groceries Code Adjudicator

My hon. Friend is right. I was going to come on to that point later, but I will mention it now since he has raised it. A supermarket's success cannot work on the basis of the supermarket versus the supplier. For a supermarket to be successful, it needs products on the shelves just as much as the supplier needs the supermarket to sell its products. A supermarket without Heinz baked beans and Kellogg's cornflakes would not be much of a supermarket. The idea that the whip hand is always the supermarket's is not one that I recognise. Some suppliers are so powerful that they have the whip hand over the supermarkets, because it is so important that their products are on the shelves.