Comments on: Update on Genius bread

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:41:53 +0000

Good question, Christine: maybe something to do with the way it is stored during transportation? Perhaps it simply takes longer to get it through the delivery system to the chemist than getting it to the supermarkets…

By: christine

christine — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:42:37 +0000

I will probably give up getting Genius bread on prescription as it is always too dry and stale. The brad I buy in the supermarket is much fresher. My bread was delivered to the chemist today and it was the last best before date. It’s dry before I even put it in the freezer. Whay isn’t it as fresh as the supermarket version?

By: B.Brand

B.Brand — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:04:25 +0000

I have noticed that Genius have changed the size and thickness of their GF brown bread.They have admitted, (under pressure)that they have in fact added something else to the ingredients.It now tastes very similar to all the (much less expensive)other makes of GF loaves.I wonder how long before other users notice.

By: Lou

Lou — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:36:38 +0000

Thank you, Lucy. I’m glad that it amused you – it almost made me cry, being something of a perfectionist!

The point is useful in that it might gently remind ‘powers that be’ that the wholesale price of a product is not the only financial factor to take into account (ahem).

Let’s hope that the aforementioned suits take heed. I, for one, have long been positively impressed by the range of GF products available at ASDA, just as I have been disappointed by the shelf contents at competing stores such as those of Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd. (Yes, I checked that apostrophe’s appropriateness before ploughing in…and was amused at the definition of this business as a “subsidary” of J Sainsbury plc. If a large corporation can commit such an ‘SPG’ sin with relative impunity, I hereby forgive myself.)

Please accept my apologies for having waffled all over this thread – I suffer from logorrhoea as well as Silly Yak disease!

By: Lucy

Lucy — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:01:49 +0000

Hi Lou

Your comment about apostrophes made me laugh!

And your point about losing the custom of family members if you can’t provide gluten free products for the coeliac in a family is a good one.