The fight against the superstores is a struggle for democracy
Category: supermarkets
Strange Fruit
A hard commercial logic dictates that the only way to get good fruit today is to grow your own.
The New Friends of the Earth?
The superstores are suddenly competing to be green. Can we trust them?
Beholden to the Mob
The UK’s competition authorities still seem to be working for the superstores
Growing My Own
Boycotting the superstores means taking on five allotments
Bad News from Tesco
The superstores are on the verge of cornering the news market, with disastrous implications for democracy
Low Hanging Fruit
The superstores are mopping up the last pockets of resistance
Privatising Our Minds
Cause-Related Marketing is a new form of social control
How the Superstores Gave Us Foot and Mouth
It’s not “cheap food” but big profits which are to blame
Small is Vulnerable
The supermarkets could kill organic farming’s potential to revolutionise the foodchain
Loss Leaders
The Competition Commission has given the superstores permission to destroy the rest of Britain’s food economy
Shut Down the Superstores
We’ll only break up their monopoly by turning them into farmers’ markets
Economic Cleansing
Wal-Mart’s arrival in Britain will be the final blow for small shops
Monopoly – the Only Game in Town
The Office of Fair Trading is giving Britain’s superstores exactly what they want
A Nation of Suckers
Why do we believe what the superstores tell us?
Social Solvents
The superstores are dumping their costs on all of us
Stealing from the Poor
The superstores are bigger criminals than the shoplifters
Breaking the Foodchain
Tesco is going organic, but this might not be good news
The Mailed Fist of the Free Market
Superstores are destroying the local economy
Monotonous Monopoly
The superstores are changing the world to suit themselves