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SUPERMARKETS will always be in demand, said Len Payne, distribution director of Sainsbury's. "A ban would simplv force us out into the London suburbs and the shoppers would have to travel to us," he predicted.
The company has 258 branches throughout the country, with 95 situated in the Greater London Area. In the London boroughs it has a cum it annual turnover of 070m, a J employs 18,800 people handli-Ig 73m cases of goods each year.
"The supermarket is there to serve the consumer," Mr Payne stressed, "and he or she demands instant availability of goods."
Over 50 per cent of goods are perishable and must therefore be delivered quickly and efficiently, he explained. For this reason road transport is used and, where depot access permits, the maximum-weight lorries of 32 tons gvw are chosen.