Greeks exploited in more ways than one

Watching the 10.00pm news on BBC One last night, I was aghast to hear that a fruit-stall trader in Greece had reduced the price of his cherries from €2 to €1.50 a kilo.

Last Friday, I paid €12 euro a kilo for cherries, from Lidl in Carrigaline. How can such a mark-up be justified?

And if it is as it seems, how can a giant German supermarket justify paying such low prices to producers in poorer countries and then charging Irish customers so much more?

Is it no wonder that Greece is in the economic mess that it now finds itself.

Joe Burns

Sceilg Mhíhíl

Monkstown

Co Cork