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They call it the back margin. Brands buy shelf space, position, pay for offers and promotions, extra payments (effectively a fine) if volume targets are not reached, etc.

Tesco infamously had 24 ways of extracting extra money from suppliers via back margin. The front margin is the traditional agreed buying price.




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