It's been very difficult to get an actual response from the supermarkets, I tried to approach Sainsbury's, Waitrose and Tesco and nothing really happened, while the first two told me to have a look at the website, the latter one, well I'm still waiting for my friend to come back with some answers from the questionnaire I sent him.
I also tried to talk with the Portuguese community that lives here in Vauxhall, there are many aspects that suggest that they have a strong local community here, from little sandwich shops and big restaurants to local supermarket shops that sells brazilian and Portuguese products. Again very hard to get information from the people who work there, they all seem to be very busy as i tried to talk to hem, until one very nice brazilian guy gave some answers saying that most people who shop there are either Brazilian or Portuguese from all ages, but they also have the occasional English customer who is usually attached dome how to one of the nationalities.
They don't see the big supermarkets as threat because they can offer what other supermarkets don't, specialised products and the more personal experience. When asked if they would like to have some sort of relationship with the supermarkets, he said that not up to him but he could see as a good turn for business as it could increase their exposure.
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