Dans cet exercice d'anglais, il s'agit de répondre à des questions à l'aide de documents traitant des perturbations de la chaîne d'approvisionnement durant la pandémie du Covid 19 au profit de la grande distribution alimentaire.
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[...] Supply chain 1. The main argument of the text is that big grocery retailers used the effect of the pandemic on supply to their benefit, compromising smaller retailers and potentially causing inflation to increase profits beyond to counter the rising costs. The F.T.C report states that these dominating companies pressured suppliers and used their advantage to take over scarce products, which resulted in a competitive advantage and durable profit margins even as supply chain issues eased. The tone of the text is critical and accusatory, emphasising the unfair practices that call for investigation and action against these big corporations that sacrifice small businesses for their own sake. [...]
[...] grocery supply chains during the pandemic to boost their own position, which had a bad effect on small competitors and the segments they serve. It implies that the dominant corporations were unfair and selfish during a worldwide crisis. Evidence from the text supporting this accusation: "some large firms accelerated and exacerbated the effects of supply chain snarls, including by pressuring suppliers to favor them over smaller competitors", "some large firms tried to gain access to scarce products by imposing strict delivery requirements and threatening suppliers with large fines if they failed to fill their orders", and "In some cases, suppliers preferentially allocated products to the purchasers threatening to fine them". [...]
[...] This increase in profit margins, even after supply chain issues began to lessen, creates doubt regarding the justification of higher prices being the result of retailers' rising costs. President Biden's accusation mentioning grocery chains are "overcharging shoppers and earning excess profits" (paragraph also supports the theory of potential price gouging. The fact that "profits remain elevated even as supply chain pressures have eased" (paragraph implies that the price increases may not be only attributed to increased costs, but more so it is possibly a capitalisation on the situation to generate profit, regardless of what effects that can have on other businesses and their respective consumers. [...]
