Archive for the 'supermarkets' Category

The New Friends of the Earth?

The superstores are suddenly competing to be green. Can we trust them?

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Beholden to the Mob

The UK’s competition authorities still seem to be working for the superstores

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Growing My Own

Boycotting the superstores means taking on five allotments

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Bad News from Tesco

The superstores are on the verge of cornering the news market, with disastrous implications for democracy

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Low Hanging Fruit

The superstores are mopping up the last pockets of resistance
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Privatising Our Minds

Cause-Related Marketing is a new form of social control
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How the Superstores Gave Us Foot and Mouth

It’s not “cheap food” but big profits which are to blame
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Small is Vulnerable

The supermarkets could kill organic farming’s potential to revolutionise the foodchain
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Loss Leaders

The Competition Commission has given the superstores permission to destroy the rest of Britain’s food economy
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Shut Down the Superstores

We’ll only break up their monopoly by turning them into farmers’ markets
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Economic Cleansing

Wal-Mart’s arrival in Britain will be the final blow for small shops
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Monopoly - the Only Game in Town

The Office of Fair Trading is giving Britain’s superstores exactly what they want
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A Nation of Suckers

Why do we believe what the superstores tell us?
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Social Solvents

The superstores are dumping their costs on all of us
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Stealing from the Poor

The superstores are bigger criminals than the shoplifters
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Breaking the Foodchain

Tesco is going organic, but this might not be good news
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The Mailed Fist of the Free Market

Superstores are destroying the local economy
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Monotonous Monopoly

The superstores are changing the world to suit themselves
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